Word: lysistratian
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...native men were killed, most of the whites. For a time after this civil war the remaining men lived in a stupor of alcohol and unbridled miscegenation; then the women turned against them, cornered the supply of muskets and shut themselves into a stockade. The male survivor of this Lysistratian war was finally reconciled, became the patriarch-consort of the island. When a Yankee ship put in to Pitcairn's Island in 1808, the little colony was Godfearing, sober, prolific. They had never heard of the French Revolution or the Napoleonic Wars, but most of them were happy...
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