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suffragette

/suhf-ruh-jet/US // ˌsʌf rəˈdʒɛt //UK // (ˌsʌfrəˈdʒɛt) //

女权运动者,女权主义者,女权主义者,女权运动家

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a female advocate of the right of women to vote, especially one who participated in protests in the United Kingdom in the early 20th century.

Examples

  • In fact, she and Clinton both mentioned the suffragette movement in their speeches.

  • This brings us to the flapper, the suffragette, and, finally, that über-American icon: the screen siren.

  • "I think Genevieve is going to be a suffragette," observed Tilly, cheerfully, as they trooped into the hotel together.

  • And he had made a woman saving a mouse-trap; she was a suffragette.

  • Fancy waking in the morning and finding you had missed something, like an earthquake or suffragette riot!

  • The silly suffragette with her hammer and a plate-glass window has more sense of drama than you, Dodo.

  • Or perhaps Celia had better disguise herself as a Suffragette and say that she's come to borrow a box of matches.