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Mafiosa
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mafiosa
English
Alternative forms
en mafiosa
Etymology
From en it mafiosa.
Noun
en uncommon A female member of the Mafia.
en Mafioso
en John Di Gregorio Mussolini and the Mafia w:The Nation: A Weekly Journal Devoted to Politics, Literature, Science, Drama, Music, Art, Industry CXXVI 3270 New York, N.Y. The Nation, Inc.,20 Vesey Street 7 March 1928 264 https://archive.org/details/nation126jannewy/page/264/mode/1up 1 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.”
en World Press Review 45 1998 43 2 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.
en 2011 Fred W. Viehe The Underworld Never Seemed So Fair: Women as Pirates, G’hals, Mafiosas and Gangsteristas https://www.researchgate.net/publication/283674353_The_underworld_never_seemed_so_fair_Women_as_pirates_G'hals_Mafiosas_and_Gangsteristas The International Journal of the Humanities 9 3 Altona, Vic. Common Ground 65 1447-9508 444280059 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.
en 24 October 2011 Rita Embalo Mega-rebellion Final Stop Brazil: Life after Hell [Morrisville, N.C.] [Lulu.com] 72 https://books.google.com/books?id=0UltAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA72 978-1-4478-8717-1 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.
en Attilio Bolzoni; Giuseppe D’Avanzo w:Shaun Whiteside The Boss of Bosses: The Life of the Infamous Totò Riina, Dreaded Head of the Sicilian Mafia London w:Orion Books 2015 978 1 4091 6098 4 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.
en Rosemarie M. Neilson The Throwaway Bride Terrible Trauma Like a Poem Bloomington, Ind. w:AuthorHouse 2019 978-1-7283-3131-7 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.