editress

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Etymology

From editor +‎ -ess.

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Noun

editress (plural editresses)

  1. (dated) A female editor.
    • 1905, Grazia Deledda, chapter 1, in Helen Hester Colvill, transl., Nostalgia, page 8:
      This must be Arduina, her sister-in-law, editress of a Woman's Rights paper, who had written her two or three extraordinary letters.
    • 1958, A.G. Yates, The Cold Dark Hours, Sydney: Horwitz, published 1963, page 80:
      "If it doesn't suit will you let Mrs. Langdon, the editress know by lunch-time today?"
    • 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XVII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
      “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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