Definition of "heroines" []

• Plural form of heroine. (noun)

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• "Miraculously, Pauline, Elaine, Ruth, Mary, or one or another of the title heroines would have somehow escaped, only by the end of the reel to have been in danger of death once again."
• "The title heroines of Brigitte and Brigitte, who hail from separate mountain villages, become roommates in Paris (one of them drops out of English studies at the Sorbonne, just as Moullet did)."
• "After one of the title heroines in The Smugglers pours a thimble's worth of rum on a few weeds and lights a match, the narrator solemnly intones, as if in an old-time serial, "The customs officials were met with a wall of fire.""