virago
noun
a loud-voiced, ill-tempered, scolding woman; shrew.
viragos
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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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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
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 Mrs. Henry Wood
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 Charles Mackay
Come on, then, plague, war, famine and viragos!
From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II by Herman Melville
The study of these viragos scales down our rating of the master.
From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 04 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters by Elbert Hubbard
