Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A woman aviator. Used especially during the first half of the twentieth century.
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- noun A
female aviator .
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- noun a woman aviator
Etymologies
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Examples
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The actress and the aviatrix are a match made in heaven, but surrounding the soaring performance is an earthbound biopic that's tethered to a leaden love triangle.
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The actress and the aviatrix are a match made in heaven, but surrounding the soaring performance is an earthbound biopic that's tethered to a leaden love triangle.
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The cast is over-the-top colorful from the salty "aviatrix" and oil-heiress Liberty da Vine to the crazed, Bolshevik-hating General Pugachev, and the action is fast-moving and cinematic, told in part through Becca's diary entries and Doug's pencil sketches.
Shelfari: Omnivoracious 2009
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The cast is over-the-top colorful from the salty "aviatrix" and oil-heiress Liberty da Vine to the crazed, Bolshevik-hating General Pugachev, and the action is fast-moving and cinematic, told in part through Becca's diary entries and Doug's pencil sketches.
Operation Storm City: the electric conclusion to a great British kids' series Omnivoracious 2009
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But 13 years later, Earhart was a celebrity "aviatrix" when she returned to speak at her alma mater.
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But 13 years later, Earhart was a celebrity "aviatrix" when she returned to speak at her alma mater.
unknown title 2009
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But 13 years later, Earhart was a celebrity "aviatrix" when she returned to speak at her alma mater.
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I keep wanting to use the word "aviatrix," but I need to be careful any time I take on the issue of women in aviation, as evidenced by the avalanche of hate mail I received on the heels of my "stewardess" column back in 2007.)
Salon 2008
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Just another nazi-killing monster hunting aviatrix heroine.
Archive 2010-03-01 Blue Tyson 2010
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When she begins the road to recovery, this one-time aviatrix spends her days in group therapy with other patients who have trouble verbalizing the world around them.
Michael Giltz: Theater: "Driving Miss Daisy" Sputters, "Wings" Doesn't Soar Michael Giltz 2010
bilby commented on the word aviatrix
'I guess it's the director's dramatic license to put his own personal spin on the play he is directing, but this is a little over-the-top,' said Stacey Silverman, who played Nurse Brutus in Hiles' 2003 all-female version of Julius Caesar. 'I just think Portia not being an aviatrix does a tremendous disservice to the playwright.'
- Unconventional Director Sets Shakespeare Play In Time, Place Shakespeare Intended, The Onion, 2 June 2007.
April 4, 2009