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Suffragette

noun

A woman advocate of women's right to vote (especially a militant advocate in the United Kingdom at the beginning of the 20th century).

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... they were here on account of the thunderous condition of the atmosphere and not knowing exactly how things would turn out, which is the cause of your not getting this letter sooner. Since they left, Barnabas and all, Aunt Juliet has dropped being a suffragette in disgust (you can't wonder after the way Lady Isabel turned out to have deceived her) and has taken up appendicitis warmly. She says it's far more important really than uric acid or fresh air, and is thinking of going up to Dublin next week for ...

— Priscilla's Spies 1912 • George A. Birmingham

... impression with my dancing, then I may choose that for my career. I've been thinking of it seriously... it's one way, that people might let me preach joy and health to them. If I can't do that, I'll go off and turn into a suffragette, or join the Anarchists, or ...

— The Naturewoman • Upton Sinclair

... a Militant Suffragette, but I thought she would have more sense than to go mixing herself up in brawls ...

— The Making of a Soul • Kathlyn Rhodes

... said, "we must invent a proper reason. Peter, you might pretend you've come to inspect the gas-meter or the milk or something. Or perhaps Celia had better disguise herself as a Suffragette and say that she's come to borrow a box of matches. Anyhow, one of us must get to the front of the house to search for ...

— Once a Week • Alan Alexander Milne

... species has a black cheek stripe, which the other forms lack; but it is quite unnecessary to dilate upon these minute differences. I trust I have said sufficient to enable any man, woman, or suffragette to recognise a noisy black bulbul, and, as the distribution of each species is well defined and does not overlap that of the other species, the fact that a bird is found in any particular place at once settles the question of its species. The South Indian bird occurs ...

— Birds of the Indian Hills • Douglas Dewar

... run across these ideas? A girl like you. Parasitism, and suffrage! Is my secretary a suffragette?" she ...

— The Fifth Wheel - A Novel • Olive Higgins Prouty

Words linked to "Suffragette" : United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, women's rightist, United Kingdom, libber, U.K., feminist, Great Britain, suffragist, women's liberationist, Britain, suffrage, UK