Definition of "Mafiosa"

Once the steam-roller was started nothing could stop it. It crushed indifferently men of ideas and the Mafiosa, sixty-two-year-old “Queen of Ganci.”

1928 March 7, John Di Gregorio, “Mussolini and the Mafia”, in The Nation: A Weekly Journal Devoted to Politics, Literature, Science, Drama, Music, Art, Industry, volume CXXVI, number 3270, New York, N.Y.: The Nation, Inc., […], page 264, column 1

But the women remain deputies or stand-ins. So far there has not been a Mafiosa who has made it to the top on her own.

1998, World Press Review, volume 45, page 43, column 2

Ninetta had grown up in a Mafia village, her family was Mafia, and she had fallen in love with a Mafioso. And she was a Mafiosa herself.

2015, Attilio Bolzoni, Giuseppe D’Avanzo, translated by Shaun Whiteside, The Boss of Bosses: The Life of the Infamous Totò Riina, Dreaded Head of the Sicilian Mafia, London: Orion Books

Plotted from the beginning fitting a plan for a Mafioso dictator / Never deviating from the decision to be the first for a throwaway bride / Whims and whimsical thinking guides the denial of the Mafiosa.

2019, Rosemarie M. Neilson, “The Throwaway Bride”, in Terrible Trauma Like a Poem, Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse