The Collaborative International Dictionary
Virago \Vi*ra"go\ (?; 277), n.; pl. Viragoes. [L. virago, -intis, from vir a man. See Virile.]
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A woman of extraordinary stature, strength, and courage; a woman who has the robust body and masculine mind of a man; a female warrior.
To arms! to arms! the fierce virago cries.
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Hence, a mannish woman; a bold, turbulent woman; a termagant; a vixen.
Virago . . . serpent under femininity.
--Chaucer.
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Usage examples of "viragoes".
You'd think the planet was populated by viragoes the way tempers are flaring for no reason at all.
He could not himself exactly have explained how his conception of the difference between the French and English Courts arose, but at seven years old, he in some way knew that King Louis was a finer gentleman than King Charles, that his Court was more elegant, and that the beauties who ruled it were not merry orange wenches, or romping card house-building maids of honour, or splendid viragoes who raved and stamped and poured forth oaths as fishwives do.