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- noun Plural form of
madonna .
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Examples
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Will dwell in the hearts of men who seek in themselves their madonnas—
Ousia Jason Lee Miller 2011
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Its severe grace sets it apart from the fleshy gurning of Renaissance madonnas and their plump-cheeked tots.
In Search of a Masterpiece by Christopher Lloyd – review 2011
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Sandro adored Colombina—everybody did, it seemed—and he sketched her often as inspiration for the various madonnas he was working on in the studio.
The Poet Prince KATHLEEN MCGOWAN 2010
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If you want your madonnas and goddesses to leap from the work and tell their stories as this one does, you shall need to learn this technique.
The Poet Prince KATHLEEN MCGOWAN 2010
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I shall be using this as inspiration for the face of future madonnas and goddesses of fortitude.
The Poet Prince KATHLEEN MCGOWAN 2010
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Instead the knocked up madonnas will be kennelled in government quarters and taught responsible parenting.
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Instead the knocked up madonnas will be kennelled in government quarters and taught responsible parenting.
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The paucity of films that depict women and girls in a meaningful way keeps us stuck as arm-candy for male dominated stories, or as "ho's," sometimes "madonnas," but very rarely just people in our own right.
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I know what you mean, but I didn't want to get into the whole fetishism in Catholicism (statues of saints, madonnas, Russian icons, that is -- fetishes in the religious sense rather than the sexual sense).
Some Light Relief... Hal Duncan 2006
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And supposedly, the reason for this is the human element: the fact thatall the posers, princesses, whore-madonnas, mansluts, bogans, C-list celebrities, tryhards, dorks and wannabees are supposedly representative of the population, which fact ensures that the audience relates.
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