virago
noun
a loud-voiced, ill-tempered, scolding woman; shrew.
viragoes
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pluralof virago.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
"Brayvo!" shrilled the voice of Mrs. Royle, champion among viragoes.
From Brother Copas by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
Our ladies can give their dearest up to death when the State calls on them, but they will never be like the odious viragoes of the Roman circus.
From The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour by James Runciman
Colette is as slender as a reed, and if Yvonne and I are far from being viragoes in times of peace, we were still weaker after a year of privation and trouble.
From Six Women and the Invasion by Gabrielle Yerta
