Meaning of gladiatress | Babel Free

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A female gladiator.

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“What did ſhe ſee to doat upon the ſtile / Of Gladiatreſs? […] Mævia (a Gladiatreſs) fights with a wilde Boar, 21”

“Oh! nobly train’d and tutor’d by this art / To take at Flora’s ſhows the harlot’s part, / Unleſs it be her purpoſe to engage / As real gladiatreſs on the ſtage!”

“Amidst all the contests of the day, we learn nothing of that illustrious gladiatress, Mrs Anne Royal.”

“From the disgusting to the ridiculous there is but one step, as exemplified in Rome by the combats of dwarfs, which diverted the people exceedingly, especially when any one of them engaged with a gladiatress.”

“M. Papillon—The combat is superb! It inflames me! Madame Papillon, will you have a bout with me? Madame Papillon—You are mad. Do you think I am a gladiatress?”

“Two females in Vincenne, Ind., some days ago, arranged for a prize fight. A ring was formed by the sporting men, and gladiatresses stripped to the combat when the police broke in and arrested them.”

“This was an occasion when the gladiators and gladiatresses of Rome turned themselves loose and painted the town a carmine hue.”

“In following this woman he had but obeyed an irresistible curiosity, and a vulgar whim, but when she who had inspired these feelings came out of her dressing-room, where she had taken off her habiliments, and came towards him in the costume, which was not one, of a gladiatress about to fight, he was literally thunderstruck by a beauty which his experienced eye—the sculptor’s eye of the real lover of woman—had not entirely divined on the Boulevard, in spite of the whispered revelations of the dress and the walk.”

“I should want none of it; still less, were I about my wife hunting, would I yearn for union and a domestic existence with one of those gladiatresses—to coin a word—who under Lycurgus made up the Spartan female population.”

“As soon as the noble gladiators and gladiatresses have finished repeating their song and dance about “for this and that and the glory of sport,” Miss Walsh will be led to the center of the stadium, placed on a platform composed entirely of staple groceries, and handed a full dinner pail.”

“And conspicuous among the late round gladiatresses, and I hope you don’t stutter, will be the always reliable and temperamentally consistent Rosamond Vahey of Vesper, who has twice won already and will be out among the fen-bordered pines of the Clyde trying to make it three.”

“All is in readiness for the “Big Day” today on the Salem golf course, and before it’s over some 75 to 100 greensward gladiators and gladiatresses are expected to take part in the festivities.”

“Ellen was tossed about the ring for some 20 minutes, but justice triumphed in the end and June was thrown on hers. As the gladiatresses slipped back through the whistling and jeering throng, this reporter followed, eager to learn something about how a lady rassler decides to become a lady rassler.”

“The weaker sex is expected to field about 105 hopefuls while women will send about 25 gladiatresses into battle.”

“So LaDonna Anderson picked up the trainer’s satchel (gad, it was heavy) and went out to attend wounded gladiators and gladiatresses (in season).”

“The world of “Cementville,” for instance, is that of third-rate arenas and the desperation pseudosport of wrestling, female division. However seamy these gladiatresses, they are held in awe by the fans.”

“Her dreams supposedly didn’t include American Gladiators, either. Yet Langston, despite being only 5-8 and 145 pounds, survived the show’s brawny gladiatresses to reach the semifinals.”

“After Twisted Sister’s Sunday night set, Rocklahoma closes, as all good music festivals should, with an oil wrestling competition. Most Rocklahomans have fled until next year—tickets are already available. Adam and John wind up drinking with Dirty Penny, helping to lube up the gladiatresses.”

“Petronius writes of a female essedaria, a gladiatress, fighting from a British chariot.”

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