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.
While it was her VIRAGO strength that saved the town in the end, once the risk had subsided, they returned her to baking bread in the town square, unused and underappreciated muscles rippling beneath her apron.
