Brewer's: Blackacre

(Widow ). The best of Wycherley's comic characters; she is a masculine, litigious, pettifogging, head-strong woman. (The Plain Dealer.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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