Renaissance woman

See also: renaissance woman

English

Alternative forms

  • renaissance woman

Noun

Renaissance woman (plural Renaissance women)

  1. A woman with extraordinarily broad and comprehensive knowledge.
    Coordinate term: Renaissance man
  2. (literally) A woman who lived in 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).

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