virago
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It was someone laying down the law — without worrying that a man would label her a virago or harridan or termagant.
From New York Times ● Dec. 7, 2019
“HLN’s virago of vengeance,” the New York Times dubbed her in 2011.
From Slate ● Oct. 13, 2016
“Jackson is an awesome virago who delivers her lines like bayonet thrusts,” Time magazine drama critic T.E.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 14, 2016
It was Taylor's ability to get into the skin of the character, more than the padding and a tousled salt-and-pepper wig, which transformed the legendary beauty into a blowsy virago.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 23, 2011
In Breconshire, the virago was punished through the ceffyl pren merely by the moral influence of parading it before her cottage.
From British Goblins Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes
Wodehouse still lives in the same cloud-cuckoo land of titled old blighters, muscular viragoes and fluffy-minded bachelors that he first celebrated 67 books ago.
From Time Magazine Archive
Hagen can be one of the stage's great ripsnorting viragoes, as she demonstrated last year off-Broadway in the title role of Shaw's Mrs.Warren's Profession.
From Time Magazine Archive
Yet there are viragoes who have had the indecency to call gallantry an "insult to woman."
From Primitive Love and Love-Stories by Henry Theophilus Finck
"Brayvo!" shrilled the voice of Mrs. Royle, champion among viragoes.
From Brother Copas by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
He made a sign to the two viragoes to lead their prisoner away.
From The Tremendous Event by Maurice Leblanc
When transgender entered the popular lexicon through the efforts of activists and aid organizations in the mid-1990s, it replaced transsexual, which had replaced transvestite, which was what they called cross-dressers and before that viragos.
From Slate ● May 14, 2018
The study of these viragos scales down our rating of the master.
From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 04 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters by Elbert Hubbard
No, no; 'goodness,' as you call it, don't depend on little Miss Joy, or wickedness on sharp-tempered viragos like you say your aunt is.
From Little Miss Joy by Emma Marshall
"If I were you I would see my sister in spite of all the old viragos in Exeter," said Mrs. Trevelyan.
From He Knew He Was Right by Anthony Trollope
Come on, then, plague, war, famine and viragos!
From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II by Herman Melville
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Twelfth Night
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