All 4 Uses of
suffrage
in
Cold Sassy Tree
- Not a man in town thought it mattered a hoot about women voting, and only two ladies went to the first women's suffrage meeting Miss Love set up.†
*suffrage = right to vote
- She gave us lectures on women's suffrage, Shakespeare, Beethoven, English history, and horticulture, and always had two freezers of homemade ice cream, which was why we all went.†
- Looking around, I noticed a small poster tacked on the wall, advertising a women's suffrage speech in Baltimore in 1888.†
- I didn't know whether Miss Hannah Lee thought the suffrage movement was getting too grim and made this up to poke fun at herself and the rest of us, or whether some printer did it as an insult.†
Definition:
the right to vote