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Mafiosa en · NOUN

Etymology

From Italian mafiosa.

Meanings

1. (uncommon) A female member of the Mafia.
   • Shortly before locking hour the Mafiosas or sisters, as they called themselves (of course many PCC members were still in prison and for those who were taken to other jails new ones came), which controlled the cell occupancy, negotiated with Gislane and Raposa. 2011 October 24, Rita Embalo, “Mega-rebellion”, in Final Stop Brazil: Life after Hell, [Morrisville, N.C.]: [Lulu.com], →ISBN, page 72:
   • Once the steam-roller was started nothing could stop it. It crushed indifferently men of ideas and the Mafiosa, sixty-two-year-old “Queen of Ganci.” 1928 March 7, John Di Gregorio, “Mussolini and the Mafia”, in The Nation: A Weekly Journal Devoted to Politics, Literature, Science, Drama, Music, Art, Industry, volume CXXVI, number 3270, New York, N.Y.: The Nation, Inc., […], page 264, column 1:
   • One theme that clearly appeared among Mafiosas was control—or their lack of it. In this context, women fared as best they could, often becoming helpmates in their men’s criminal activities. 2011, Fred W. Viehe, “The Underworld Never Seemed So Fair: Women as Pirates, G’hals, Mafiosas and Gangsteristas”, in The International Journal of the Humanities, volume 9, number 3, Altona, Vic.: Common Ground, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 65:
   • Plotted from the beginning fitting a plan for a Mafioso dictator / Never deviating from the decision to be the first for a throwaway bride / Whims and whimsical thinking guides the denial of the Mafiosa. 2019, Rosemarie M. Neilson, “The Throwaway Bride”, in Terrible Trauma Like a Poem, Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, →ISBN:
   • Ninetta had grown up in a Mafia village, her family was Mafia, and she had fallen in love with a Mafioso. And she was a Mafiosa herself. 2015, Attilio Bolzoni, Giuseppe D’Avanzo, translated by Shaun Whiteside, The Boss of Bosses: The Life of the Infamous Totò Riina, Dreaded Head of the Sicilian Mafia, London: Orion Books, →ISBN:
   • But the women remain deputies or stand-ins. So far there has not been a Mafiosa who has made it to the top on her own. 1998, World Press Review, volume 45, page 43, column 2:

Forms

Coordinates

Mafioso