| 释义 |
suffragettesuf‧fra‧gette /ˌsʌfrəˈdʒet/ noun [countable]   - As a leading suffragette, she endured the first of two spells in Holloway gaol in 1907.
- However, what differentiated the suffragettes much more sharply and significantly from their criminal sisters was their resistance to criminalising.
- It was in that year that female suffrage was being widely advocated and the militant suffragettes made their appearance.
- People asked her, significantly in that suffragette period, if the initials stood for New Women's Movement.
- She incited a crowd to riot, and was said to be behind the suffragette burning of Leuchars Station.
- Six months later she went to prison as a suffragette, having lied about her age and enrolled as a militant.
- The presiding jury claimed they had not chosen her, as she alleged, but Elina Guimaraes, an 84-year-old former suffragette.
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