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Termagant
Sign in to savethumb|Text from a manuscript of the Chanson de Guillaume: Tresque il vendreit de aurer Tervagant In the Middle Ages, Termagant or Tervagant was the name of a god that some European Christians believed Muslims worshipped. It originates in the eleventh-century Song of Roland.
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- Etymology
- Termagant in literature
- "Termagant" as a ranting bully and a shrewish woman
- See also
- Notes
- References
- External links
thumb|Text from a manuscript of the Chanson de Guillaume: Tresque il vendreit de aurer Tervagant In the Middle Ages, Termagant or Tervagant was the name of a god that some European Christians believed Muslims worshipped. It originates in the eleventh-century Song of Roland.
The word is also used in modern English to mean a violent, overbearing, turbulent, brawling, quarrelsome woman; a virago, shrew, or vixen.
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