女房

Meaning

1. n
   wife (esp. one's own wife)
2. n
   court lady; female court attache; woman who served at the imperial palace
3. n archaic
   woman (esp. as a love interest)

Example sentences

• 彼は懲役十年で、女房には三年の刑が下った。

  He was given ten years and his wife three.

• 彼は女房の尻に敷かれている。

  He is a hen-pecked husband.

• 亭主が女房の尻にしかれるのも当然だ。

  No wonder he is a henpecked husband.