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
Yet, tellingly, this virago is also the creation of a male writer-director.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 11, 2018
“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
"The virago is not a becoming rôle, Bobs," he said, and left her.
From Cinderella Jane by Marjorie Benton Cooke
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
Behind them came a woman escorted by two coarse, red-faced viragoes.
From The Tremendous Event by Maurice Leblanc
I shouldn't make it one of your hoity-toity vixenish viragoes.
From The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan by Sir W. S. (William Schwenck) Gilbert
"Brayvo!" shrilled the voice of Mrs. Royle, champion among viragoes.
From Brother Copas by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
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
"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
This hag was a reputed witch and fortune-teller, and acted as president of the young viragos, several of whom, it was afterwards ascertained, belonged to the first families of Rome.
From Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 2 by Charles Mackay
Little Asako had nothing in common with the argumentative heroines of Bernard Shaw or with the desperate viragos of Ibsen, to whom Sadako felt herself spiritually akin.
From Kimono by John Paris
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
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Twelfth Night
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