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upright=1.4|thumb|Relief of two gladiatrices found at Halicarnassus
The gladiatrix (plural gladiatrices) was the female counterpart to the gladiator. There is limited information about their existence, which comes from a few ancient historians (members of the elite class), and a small number of archaeological remains.
Gladiatrix (Robin Braxton) is a fictional heroine appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.
Usage examples of "gladiatrix".
She was small, wiry, and beautiful, a gladiatrix dressed in leather armor over a coarse tunic.
He painted dragons and strongmen in the fashion of the posters of certain recently popular films, his skies full of billowy Maxfield Parrish clouds, his barbarians and gladiatrixes and even his dragons rendered with a uniform photorealist gloss, down to each feather and scale, down to each blond, blow-dried strand of their anachronistic haircuts.