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virago (n.)
late 14c., "man-like or heroic woman," from Latin
virago
, from
vir
"man" (see
virile
). Ælfric (c.1000), following Vulgate, used it in Gen. ii:23 (KJV =
woman
):
Beo hire nama Uirago, þæt is, fæmne, forðan ðe heo is of hire were genumen.
