Citations:amazon

Adjectival use

 * 1864, Thomas Adolphus Trollope, Lindisfarn Chase: A Novel, page 35
 * she very accurately figured to herself the charming picture she would make, mounted in a becoming amazon costume upon so showily beautiful a steed.
 * , by Frances Dillon Jerningham, The Jerningham Letters (1780-1843): Being Excerpts from the Correspondence, page 49
 * Your riding in a masterly way is not what suits my idea of female meekness, but I allow you to be amazon as you have so many claims upon the arts which soften down the Intrepidity of the amazon
 * 1909, Henry Dudeney, Trespass, page 241
 * This was a complaint which demanded more amazon and strictly feminine qualities.
 * 1973, Jill Johnston, Lesbian Nation: The Feminist Solution, page 258
 * Lesbian nation is amazon culture
 * 1990, Diane Stein,  Casting the Circle: A Women's Book of Ritual, page 77
 * These are amazon foremothers, with two Mother Goddesses (Demeter and Hina) to watch over them.
 * 1992, Walter L. Williams, The Spirit and the Flesh: Sexual Diversity in American Indian Culture, page 251
 * She wrote me that "There are amazon women, recognized as such, today in a number of tribes—young, alive, and kicking!"
 * 2002, D. J. MacHale, The Merchant of Death, page 78
 * If they knew who I was, then why was amazon girl over there ready to beat my brains out?