Boudicca

American

[boo-dik-uh] / buˈdɪk ə /

noun

Boadicea.

Boudicca British

/ bəʊˈdɪkə /

noun

Also called: Boadicea. died 62 _ad , a queen of the Iceni, who led a revolt against Roman rule in Britain; after being defeated she poisoned herself

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Suzie Hookes owns Boudicca ladies clothes shop in Abersoch and said the plan was "absurd" and "outreageous".

From BBC • Jul. 15, 2024

On a smaller scale but a similar theme, Kickass Divas brings Boudicca, Florence Nightingale, Cleopatra and more out of the museum vaults and onto the stage.

From BBC • Aug. 10, 2022

Boudicca did lead the armies of the Iceni tribe in the first century A.D., but it was only later that I learned why.

From Washington Post • Mar. 8, 2019

Others are quasi-mythical figures, whose lives are so obscured by legend that the truth is hazy: Boudicca, Joan of Arc, Nefertiti, Sybil Ludington, Mata Hari.

From Slate • Jun. 21, 2018

The Britons were decisively defeated and Boudicca committed suicide.

From A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Boak, Arthur Edward Romilly

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