traitoress

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English

Alternative forms

traitoresse, traitress, traitresse, traytoress, traytoresse, traytress, traytresse

Etymology

From Middle English traitresse, traytouresse, from Middle French traitresse, Anglo-Norman traiteresse, treiteresce; equivalent to traitor +‎ -ess.

Noun

traitoress (plural traitoresses)

(chiefly obsolete) A female traitor.
- 2005, Lynda Rue Duerksen Jordan, Risking Apollo’s Kiss: Stories of Academically-Talented Women Teachers Naming Themselves (quotation in English; overall work in English), page 4:
  Rather than heed her warnings, those who hear her words name her a traitoress or a woman insane.

References

“traitoress”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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