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English
Etymology
From director + -ess.
Noun
directress (plural directresses)
- A (dated) female director.
- Synonym: directrix
1791, Homer, “[The Odyssey.] Book I.”, in W[illiam] Cowper, transl., The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, Translated into Blank Verse, , volume II, London: J Johnson, , →OCLC, page 9, lines 172 and 174–177:And now a maiden […] ſupplied them, next, / With a reſplendent table, which the chaſte / Directreſs of the ſtores furniſh'd with bread / And dainties, remnants of the laſt regale.
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