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Several suffragette leaders will be added to the $10 bill and former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt will appear on the $5 bill.
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This year's election took place 104 years to do the day since Emily Davison gave her life to the suffragette cause by jumping in front King George V's horse at Epsom racecourse in 1913.
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And this is the place where a Manchester girl named Emmeline Pankhurst from the streets of Moss Side led a suffragette city with sisterhood pride/
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This week’s women focused on how to look haute in hectic times: suffragette white for big night benefit dresses, flapper fringe for post-Met Gala dancing, sergeant pepper jackets and animal prints to roar stylishly by night.
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Among those represented are the Bronte sisters, American Olympian Gertrude Ederle — the first woman to swim across the English Channel — and Emily Wilding Davison, a tragic figure in the suffragette movement.
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The early suffragist movement gave rise to the suffragettes, writes the BBC.
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Mrs. Pelosi led Democratic women in wearing white, recalling the suffragette movement.
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Paul Ryan, the Speaker of the House, appeared satisfied and fond of the President, for the most part; Democrats expressed their discontent with some pointed silences and, in the case of many of the women, outfits in suffragette white.
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First Known Use of suffragette
1902
SUFFRAGETTE Defined for English Language Learners
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Definition of suffragette for English Language Learners
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: a woman who worked to get voting rights for women in the past when women were not allowed to vote
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