tuawahine
1. (personal noun) heroine, principal female character, female celebrity, female idol - a familiar name for the main character or actor of a story, etc. and usually used as a proper name.
Ānō te rangi o te kōauau a Tūtānekai, me he rū nā anō e ueue ana i a tuawahine kia haere atu ki te kare ā-roto a tōna ngākau (NM 1928:110). / It was as if the tune of Tūtānekai's flute was an earthquake shaking our heroine to go to the love of her heart.
