Mafiosa

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Etymology

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From Italian mafiosa.

Noun

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Mafiosa (plural not attested)

  1. (rare) A female member of the Mafia.
    Coordinate term: Mafioso
    • 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:
      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.”
    • 1998, World Press Review, volume 45, page 43, column 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.
    • 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:
      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.
    • 2019, Rosemarie M. Neilson, “The Throwaway Bride”, in Terrible Trauma Like a Poem, Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, →ISBN:
      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.