shipmistress

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English

Etymology

From ship +‎ mistress.

Noun

shipmistress (plural shipmistresses)

  1. A female shipmaster.
    • 1890 May 10, Seafaring, volume 4, number 81, page 14, column 3:
      Women nowadays invade all professions. The other day we announced the death of a lady shipmaster—or shipmistress.
    • 1969, Poul Anderson, Beyond the Beyond, Signet Books, page 93:
      “In whole truth, Shipmistress,” Dagla added, “I don’t believe Morruchan wants your help. […]”
    • 1983, Nigel Tranter, Lord of the Isles, Coronet Books, published 1994, →ISBN, page 222:
      “Time will aid us too, impatient one. You will see. For there is much to be resolved, beyond tonight, is there not? What of your shipmistress? The fair Cathula?”
    • 1996, Robert Jordan, A Crown of Swords (The Wheel of Time; book seven), Orbit, →ISBN, page 248:
      “The Light illumine you and your vessels, Shipmistress, and send the winds to speed you all.”
    • 2005, Juliet E. McKenna, Western Shore, Orbit, →ISBN, page 188:
      I wouldn’t want to be caught in these winds without a shipload of strong oarsmen to fight our way back. I hope our shipmistress knows what she’s doing.
    • 2008, Isobelle Carmody, The Stone Key, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →ISBN, page 319:
      He has gone to fetch our good shipmistress, but he says to begin the discussion without him.
    • 2015, Nick Kyme, Deathfire: Into the Ruinstorm, Black Library, →ISBN, page 45:
      The Demagogue was a much smaller ship than the Dark Sacrament, a destroyer-class vessel with fewer crew. It could have easily been missed; Inviglio still had no idea how the shipmistress aboard the Defiance of Calth had found it.
    • 2014, Karen Traviss, Halo: Mortal Dictata, New York, N.Y.: Tor Books, →ISBN, page 167:
      One of the shipmistresses was making notes on a data module or tallying a price.
    • 2017, L J Goulding, Scythes of the Emperor, Black Library, →ISBN, page 181:
      Reports would later be made that the shipmistress drew her sidearm and shot herself in front of the oculus and her bridge crew.
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