Brewer's: Thalestris

Queen of the Amazons, who went with 300 women to meet Alexander the Great, under the hope of raising a race of Alexanders.

“This was no Thalestris from the fields, but a quiet domestic character from the fireside.” —C. Brontë's Shirley, chap. xxviii.

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