suffragette
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From suffrage + -ette, first used as a derisive label by the Daily Mail in 1906, but eventually adopted by the WSPU itself.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]suffragette (plural suffragettes)
- (historical) A female supporter, often militant, of women's right to vote in the early 20th century, especially in Great Britain.
- Synonym: (general term) suffragist
- 2018 February 2, “Smashed windows, broken rules: the dark suffragette sites of London”, in The Guardian[2], retrieved 2021-07-11:
- Perhaps no single location resonates for women’s rights campaigners today as much as Holloway, the first female-only prison, where militant suffragettes were incarcerated, went on hunger strike and were savagely force-fed.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]female supporter of women's right to vote
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References
[edit]Further reading
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suffragette on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
French
[edit]Etymology
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Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]suffragette f (plural suffragettes)
Further reading
[edit]- “suffragette”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
[edit]Noun
[edit]suffragette f
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