viragoes

These women were what Florence King calls "viragoes" -- not in the accepted sense of the nag, but in the original sense of the woman who is strong in and of herself.

American Thinker 2008

These women were what Florence King calls "viragoes" -- not in the accepted sense of the nag, but in the original sense of the woman who is strong in and of herself.

American Thinker 2008

Violent men were still men; violent women became superwomen, amazons, viragoes.

Gutenber-e Help Page 2005

You'd think the planet was populated by viragoes the way tempers are flaring for no reason at all.

The Rowan McCaffrey, Anne 1990

It afterwards appeared that the two of Lafayette's Paris militiamen posted at the outer gateway had betrayed their trust and let in the mob of viragoes and armed brigands who pressed for admittance early in the morning.

The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette William Douw Lighthall

She recalled the alarming news brought to the Hôtel de Noailles of the march of the viragoes on

The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette William Douw Lighthall

She smiled grimly to watch Mrs. Macanany and viragoes like her pouring oil on the flames and drumming the weak-kneed up and screaming against "blacklegging" as a thing accurst.

The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel John Maurice Miller

Femme Gougeon, as leader of a horde of viragoes, was rushing among them shrieking more fiendishly than ever.

The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette William Douw Lighthall

In between these waggons the women are placed for safety, for it is a noticeable fact that very large numbers of women have followed their husbands and fathers to the war, not to act as viragoes, not to play the wanton, not to unsex themselves, not to handle the rifle, but to nurse the wounded, to comfort the dying, and to lay out the dead.

Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) Letters from the Front A. G. Hales

Such was Penthesilea, who, if we may credit ancient story, led her army of viragoes to the assistance of Priam, king of Troy; Thomyris, who encountered Cyrus, king of Persia; and Thalestris, famous for her fighting, as well as for her amours with Alexander the Great.

Sketches of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World Anonymous