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Renaissance woman (plural Renaissance women)
- A woman with extraordinarily broad and comprehensive knowledge.
- Coordinate term: Renaissance man
- (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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