"archwife" meaning in English

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        "2": "arch",
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  "etymology_text": "From Middle English archewyf, arche wif, equivalent to arch- + wife.",
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      "form": "archwives",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1977, Geoffrey Chaucer, Theodore Morrison, The Portable Chaucer: Revised Edition",
          "text": "You archwives, strong as camels, take the high\nAnd overpowering hand against the male.",
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        },
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          "ref": "2002, Pauline Croft, King James",
          "text": "Lady Wallingford had been circulating defamatory libels against Buckingham, leading James to comment that Wallingford was like his father-in-law, 'altogether guided and overruled by an archwife'.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, Stephanie Forward, Dreams, Visions and Realities, page 3",
          "text": "To pay homage to the World Harlot, the Mandrake Venus, the Archwife, the Ever-existing, who has been, is, and will be. […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Georgette Heyer, False Colours, page 191",
          "text": "All the same, Master Kit, it looks like you're in a case of pickles – if her ma's half the archwife the postboy says she is! Seems to me you'll have to hang up your axe.'",
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          "ref": "2013, Barbara Metzger, Greetings of the Season and Other Stories",
          "text": "Some poor fool might have been saved a lifetime of misery if the archwife had drowned in the ditch after all.",
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        "A big, masculine wife; a dominating woman; virago."
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          "wife",
          "wife"
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          "woman",
          "woman"
        ],
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          "virago",
          "virago"
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  "word": "archwife"
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  "etymology_text": "From Middle English archewyf, arche wif, equivalent to arch- + wife.",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2002, Pauline Croft, King James",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, Stephanie Forward, Dreams, Visions and Realities, page 3",
          "text": "To pay homage to the World Harlot, the Mandrake Venus, the Archwife, the Ever-existing, who has been, is, and will be. […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Georgette Heyer, False Colours, page 191",
          "text": "All the same, Master Kit, it looks like you're in a case of pickles – if her ma's half the archwife the postboy says she is! Seems to me you'll have to hang up your axe.'",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
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          "text": "Some poor fool might have been saved a lifetime of misery if the archwife had drowned in the ditch after all.",
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