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Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryInitialism of she who must be obeyed: one's wife or female partner.
Originated in the novel She: A History of Adventure by H. Rider Haggard, where it refers to the imperious queen of a lost kingdom in Africa. Later used by John Mortimer in his Rumpole of the Bailey series of books.
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