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virago::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | amazon |
| Type of | adult female, woman |
Examples of virago
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The climactic confrontation with Bryce Dallas Howard's spiteful Southern virago.
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But she was also demanding and manipulative, a virago when she didn't get her way.
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Mozart used a similar virago, the Queen of the Night, in The Magic Flute.
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Jackson is an awesome virago who delivers her lines like bayonet thrusts.
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Virago has shrewdly included In a Summer Season among the reissues.
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Above all, she yearned for Billy's virago mother Elsie to accept her.
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Virago got the better of Njord in the Dragons with Flawless third.
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Virago seriously erred, however, in failing to include even one of Taylor's story collections.
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The scene in which he finally asserts himself to his virago of a wife, Clara, is a moment of joy.
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- A noisy or scolding or domineering woman
- Amazon: a large strong and aggressive woman
- Virago is a term that refers to a strong, brave, or warlike woman. The term comes from the same root as the word virile, the Latin vir "a man", hence, a masculine woman.
- Virago is a British publishing company founded in 1973 by Carmen Callil to publish books by women writers. Both new works and reissued books by neglected authors have featured on the imprint's list.
- The following is a list of fictional starships, cruisers, battleships, and other spacecraft in the Star Wars saga.
- Given to undue belligerence or ill manner at the slightest provocation; a shrew, a termagant; scolding, domineering, highly opinionated; a fishwife, a nag; rough, loud, and aggressive; pertaining to a virago
- A loud-voiced, ill-tempered, scolding woman; shrew
- 1. a bold, shrewish woman 2. Archaic: a strong, large, manlike woman; an amazon
