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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

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

Well, it took me five minutes, and perhaps ten, to separate those two viragoes.

From Selected Writings of Guy De Maupassant by Maupassant, Guy de

Just as we entered the square, a scuffle took place between two viragoes about a disputed right to a washtub, and immediately the whole community was in a hubbub.

From Oliver Goldsmith A Biography by Irving, Washington

And ever an anon, with crapulous glee, Grinned homage to viragoes on the shore.

From Adventures in Criticism by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir