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heroine

[her-oh-in] / ˈhɛr oʊ ɪn /


NOUN
principal female character
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He also enlisted 10 composers, each of whom was assigned an eight-minute scene reflecting a decade in the heroine’s life.

From The Wall Street Journal

Fennell seems to imagine Catherine as a proto-Scarlett in “Gone With the Wind,” except that Brontë didn’t give her flawed heroine as many options.

From Los Angeles Times

He’s a little too awful for me, but I do think we could use less sanitized heroes and heroines in modern love stories.

From Los Angeles Times

But it’s to Raimi and the actors’ credit that they manage to make such an odious character as Bradley actually sympathetic — and so clear a heroine as Linda complex and thorny.

From Los Angeles Times

Did you channel any classic romance heroes, heroines or stories as you prepped?

From Los Angeles Times