Renaissance woman

See also: renaissance woman

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Noun

Renaissance woman (plural Renaissance women)

  1. (literally) A woman who lived during the Renaissance period.
    • 1995, Mary Beth Rose, Perspectives on Renaissance Drama, →ISBN, page 35:
      These writers all confirm what has become a cliché about the Renaissance woman as “chaste, silent and obedient” (as the title of Suzanne Hull's bibliography of books for and about Renaissance women has it).
  2. (figuratively) A woman with extraordinarily broad and comprehensive knowledge.
    Coordinate term: Renaissance man

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