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Recent Examples of fishwifeIn addition to Brecht’s typical didacticism, there is a haunting passage for a fishwife whose son died in one of Lucullus’s campaigns.—Seth Colter Walls, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2020 An old fishwife sees a lobster try to escape and whacks it back in with her net.—Casey Quackenbush / Hong Kong, Time, 12 July 2018
During a recent appearance on VladTV, the iconic video vixen opened up about her experience touring the country at 14 years old and how the period exposed her to predatory behavior from associates of 2 Live Crew and other celebrities.
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Preezy Brown,
VIBE.com,
29 Sep. 2025
The album’s campaign and editorial aesthetic has made references to everything from classic Grace Jones images to hair metal vixens.
Skin is important here, not just its color but its texture as Josephine, for example, goes from elegant sophisticate to sweaty, sunburned, frizzy virago increasingly swollen with pregnancy and angry mosquito bites.
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Jessica Kiang,
Variety,
25 Aug. 2023
Meredith is a stereotypical virago updated with modern libertarian notions.
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