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On election night, Johnson wore suffragette white as a nod to the women’s suffrage movement more than a century ago.
—Pj Green, Kansas City Star, 4 Jan. 2025
Set in Edwardian London with the dome of St Paul's visible in the background, chimney sweeps and suffragettes fill the stage.
—Irenie Forshaw, theweek, 18 Dec. 2024
Popular on Variety Bogie’s mother, Maud Humphrey, was a suffragette and quite a famous — and well paid — illustrator from the turn of the 20th century into the 1920s, earning upwards of $50,000 a year during the Great Depression.
—Rosemary Rossi, Variety, 10 Dec. 2024
This is a strange year for the court,... Driver accused of menacing crowd at pro-Palestinian protest near Capitol
Continuing a tradition from the time of suffragettes wearing white, Democratic congresswomen are dressed in the...
Biden has made it to the Capitol.
—Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2024
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First Known Use
1906, in the meaning defined above
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“Suffragette.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/suffragette. Accessed 23 Jan. 2025.
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suffragette
noun
suf·frag·ette
ˌsəf-ri-ˈjet
: a woman who supported voting rights for women when women were not allowed to vote
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