English

Noun

monitress ‎(plural monitresses)

1. (now rare) A female mentor or advisor; a female observer.
   • 1897, Henry James, What Maisie Knew:

     Maisie could feel his monitress stiffen almost with anguish against the increase of his spell and then hurl herself as a desperate defence from it into the quite confessed poorness of violence, of iteration.

2. (dated) A female monitor, or school leader.
   • Angela Brazil

     Miss Mitchell would certainly be most relieved to have a monitress who was capable of organising the juniors at games.