taliswoman

English

Etymology

Blend of talisman +‎ woman

Noun

taliswoman (plural taliswomen)

1. A talisman in the form of a female figure.
   • 2012, Matthew Gavin Frank, Pot Farm, →ISBN, page 206:

     We stare into the bottomless laminated eyes of the Virgen de Guadalupe, Hector's taliswoman against Katrina and his own dead family, and now ours against the silencing of Gloria.

   • 2012, William Hjortsberg, Jubilee Hitchhiker: The Life and Times of Richard Brautigan, →ISBN:

     When Beverly Allen left the Geary Street apartment for her family home in Oakland later that night, she gave Brautigan the painted Mexican doll (her “taliswoman”) as a keepsake.

   • 2017, Amy Sara Carroll, REMEX: Toward an Art History of the NAFTA Era, →ISBN, page 188:

     She then scattered these taliswomen throughout The Birth of Venus, putting some in boxes, using others to line walls.

   • 2018, Rosie Walsh, The Man Who Didn't Call:

     'She's been with me through a lot,' he smiled. 'She's my taliswoman. Anyway. Cheers.'