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herrisch (adj./adv.)  overbearing(ly), imperious(ly)

Im Film Forty Guns (1957) spielt Barbara Stanwyck eine herrische Rancherin, der sich alle beugen.
In the movie Forty Guns (1957) Barbara Stanwyck plays an overbearing ranch owner who has everyone cowed.

Related: der Herr lord, ruler, master; Lord (God); gentleman, die Herrin female ruler

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