英和和英

名詞

menstruater ‎(複数形 menstruaters)

1. Alternative form of menstruator.
   • 1959, Alan F. Guttmacher, Babies by Choice or by Chance, Doubleday (1959), page 50:

     Rhythm is the least efficient of the contraceptive methods thus far discussed, because of the variability of the menses even in regular menstruaters, […]

   • 1996, John Kerrigan, Revenge Tragedy: Aeschylus to Armageddon, Clarendon Press (1996), ISBN 9780198121862, page 55:

     The menstruater is defiled and defiling because, as she bleeds, she strays beyond the socialized towards the realm of death.

   • 1999, James A. Boon, Verging on Extra-vagance: Anthropology, History, Religion, Literature, Arts ... Showbiz, Princeton University Press (1999), ISBN 9780691016313, page 30:

     Benedict announces the topic of girls' puberty by sketching various rites of passage that display dramatic practices of purity/pollution: first, Carrier Indians who figuratively bury alive novice menstruaters, isolating them for three years; second, Apache attitudes about first menses as occasions for supernatural sources of beneficial cure.