Heroine

Definitions

1. A female hero.
2. Dated form of heroin.
   alt-of, dated, uncountable
3. A female lead character.

Equivalents

Examples

“Miss⟳ Phyllis Morgan, as the hapless heroine dressed in the shabbiest of clothes, appears in the midst of a gay and giddy throng; she apostrophises all and sundry there, including the villain, and has a magnificent scene which always brings down the house, and nightly adds to her histrionic laurels.”

“[…] 1,451 ounces of heroine hydrochloride, and 19 ounces of codeine — the equivalent of 16,273 pounds of opium.”

“No manufacture⟳ of heroine is lawful in the United States of America, but it is permitted in some countries under the same conditions as for other narcotics under international control⟳.”

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