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suffragette
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Suffragette is a 2015 British historical period drama film about women's suffrage in the United Kingdom . directed by Sarah Gavron and written by Abi Morgan . The film stars Carey Mulligan , Helena Bonham Carter , Brendan Gleeson , Anne-Marie Duff , Ben ...
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n. 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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n. A female supporter, often militant, of women's right to vote in the early 20th century
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Suffragette \Suf`fra*gette"\ n. A woman who advocates the right to vote for women; a woman suffragist. Note: This term was applied mostly to women in the United States prior to the adoption of the 19th amendment to the constitution in 1920, giving women ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"female supporter of the cause of women's voting rights," 1906, from suffrage , with French fem. ending -ette , but not in the sense in which it was in vogue at the time.\n\n suffragette . A more regrettable formation than others such as leaderette & flannelette ...
Usage examples of suffragette.
As Bisbee left the room, Jonathan settled into a chair, gazed at the fire, and thought about the young suffragette who lived across the street.
She and Richard Ferguson enjoyed teasing him about the feisty suffragette whenever they had the chance.
In reply to this, Miss Annabelle Bloodthurst asserts that if we count the number of successful suffragette hits woman is never so true to her sex as when she is heaving bricks at a British prime minister.
It seems that the nurse, who was a suffragette in disguise, had removed the child, a girl, and substituted a mechanical doll, with a phonographic attachment.
When he visited the following day, mother and child were on very good terms with each other, and Lulu had decided to name the infant after one of her political idols, Sylvia Pankhurst, the fiery Communist daughter of Misses Pankhurst, the leader of the suffragette movement before the First World War.
Sylvia, a fiery suffragette with Communist leanings, and only secondly after her stepmother.
Another survival is the Suffragette, one of the big jokes of the pre-1914 period and too valuable to be relinquished.
Probably used to chain herself to railings and wave a suffragette flag in good old prewar days.
Victoria said, sounding more like a spoiled child than a suffragette, according to her sister.
Anyhow, when Lena gave a rather gloomy account of the existing state of things in the Suffragette World, Waldo was not merely sympathetic but ready with a practical suggestion.
Home Rule schism, the Tariff-Reform upheaval and the Suffragette crusade were thankfully seized on as furnishing occasion for further differences and sub-divisions.
Are the labor conditions better there than they are in England, where the suffragettes are making such a heroic struggle?
But after all, the suffragettes, too, are still lacking in appreciation of real equality.
Without that white sash branding them as suffragettes, men looked right past them as things of no threat, and hence, no importance.
Whoever was setting out to silence the suffragettes of Merriam Falls was doing a fine job of it.