viragos
- plural of virago.
Example Sentences
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When transgender entered the popular lexicon through the efforts of activists and aid organizations in the mid-1990s, it replaced transsexual, which had replaced transvestite, which was what they called cross-dressers and before that viragos.
From Slate • May 14, 2018
"If I were you I would see my sister in spite of all the old viragos in Exeter," said Mrs. Trevelyan.
From He Knew He Was Right by Trollope, Anthony
Half-a-dozen Pennsylvanian viragos surrounded and assailed me with their united tongues to a deafening degree.
From Three Months in the Southern States, April-June 1863 by Fremantle, Arthur James Lyon
Women had been reduced to the lowest extremes of misery and suffering, had been transformed into viragos, where they once had been pleasant and peaceful; children had died off by scores.
From A Life's Secret A Novel by Wood, Mrs. Henry
This hag was a reputed witch and fortune-teller, and acted as president of the young viragos, several of whom, it was afterwards ascertained, belonged to the first families of Rome.
From Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 2 by Mackay, Charles
