suffragette

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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noun a woman advocate of women's right to vote (especially a militant advocate in the United Kingdom at the beginning of the 20th century)

From suffrage + -ette, first used as a derisive label by the Daily Mail in 1906, but eventually adopted by the WSPU itself.

"I'm afraid you're a Suffragette," I said. — Happy Days, A. A. (Alan Alexander) Milne
"And I don't know what you mean by Suffragettes." — The Heather-Moon, C. N. (Charles Norris) Williamson
Tea in the laboratory was a sort of suffragette reception. — Ann Veronica: A Modern Love Story, H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

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