Murdress

Mur´dress

A battlement in ancient fortifications with interstices for firing through.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.

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But were a WOMAN to attempt such an expedient, however strong her sense of injury, however invincible her fortitude, or important the preservation of character, she would be deemed a murdress. Thus, custom says, you must be free from error; you must possess an unsullied fame: yet, if a slanderer, or a libertine, even by the most unpardonable falshoods [sic], deprive you of either reputation or repose, you have no remedy.

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