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virago \vuh-RAH-go; vuh-RAY-go\, noun:
1. A woman of extraordinary stature, strength, and courage.
2. A woman regarded as loud, scolding, ill-tempered,
quarrelsome, or overbearing.
The intrepid heroines range from Unn the Deep Minded, the
Viking virago who colonized Iceland, to Sue Hendrikson, a
school dropout who became one of the great experts on
amber, fossils and shipwrecks.
--Ann Prichard, "Coffee-table: Africa, cathedrals, animals,
'Sue,'" [1]USA Today, November 28, 2001
This virago, this madwoman, finally got to me, and I was
subjected to the most rude, the most shocking violence I
can remember.
--José Limón, [2]An Unfinished Memoir
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Virago comes from Latin virago, "a man-like woman, a female
warrior, a heroine" from vir, "a man."
what the hell! why is every word for a strong woman also an epithet??!
1. A woman of extraordinary stature, strength, and courage.
2. A woman regarded as loud, scolding, ill-tempered,
quarrelsome, or overbearing.
The intrepid heroines range from Unn the Deep Minded, the
Viking virago who colonized Iceland, to Sue Hendrikson, a
school dropout who became one of the great experts on
amber, fossils and shipwrecks.
--Ann Prichard, "Coffee-table: Africa, cathedrals, animals,
'Sue,'" [1]USA Today, November 28, 2001
This virago, this madwoman, finally got to me, and I was
subjected to the most rude, the most shocking violence I
can remember.
--José Limón, [2]An Unfinished Memoir
_________________________________________________________
Virago comes from Latin virago, "a man-like woman, a female
warrior, a heroine" from vir, "a man."
what the hell! why is every word for a strong woman also an epithet??!