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Webster 1913 Edition
Editress
Ed′i-tress
,Noun.
A female editor.
Definition 2024
editress
editress
English
Noun
editress (plural editresses)
- (dated) A female editor.
- 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, “chapter XVII”, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, OCLC 1227855:
- “Girls like Phyllis Mills are an open book to me. For four years I was, if you remember, the proprietor and editress of a weekly paper for women.” She was alluding to the periodical entitled Milady's Boudoir [...]
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