Tuesday, December 7, 2010

I Have Also Been Considered Extraordinary!

Today's Word "virago"

virago \vuh-RAH-go; vuh-RAY-go\ (noun) - 1 : A woman of extraordinary stature, strength, and courage. 2 : A woman regarded as loud, scolding, ill-tempered, quarrelsome, or overbearing.

"For you are the witch Magrit, the horrid harridan, the repulsive termagant, the fustigant fury, the lamia rampant, the execrable harpy, the verminous virago, the loathsome she-wolf. Hence are you known the world over as the unquestioned mistress of lore and practice of foety, this expertise being explained, of course, not simply by its natural attraction to one of your demonic foulness, but, more simply still, by the demands of self-preservation." -- Eric Flint, 'Forward the Mage'

Virago comes from Latin virago, "a man-like woman, a female warrior, a heroine" from vir, "a man."

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