Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A female archer.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A female archer.

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  • noun A female archer.

Etymologies

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archer +‎ -ess

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Examples

  • Once she reached the two pieces of kobold, the archeress chucked them into the nearby swamp.

    Kresley Cole Immortals After Dark: The Clan MacRieve Kresley Cole 2010

  • Louis and he would often amuse themselves with shooting at a mark, which they would chip on the bark of a tree, even Catharine was a tolerable archeress with the long-bow, and the hut was now seldom without game of one kind or other.

    Lost in the Backwoods Catharine Parr Strickland Traill 1850

  • Catharine was a tolerable archeress with the longbow, and the hut was now seldom without game of one kind or other.

    Canadian Crusoes Catharine Parr Strickland Traill 1850

  • Lucia wanted her to join the Skathians—the celibate archeress order she herself had entered—but Regin was too curious about coupling, too eager to discover what the warlord’s secretive smile that night had promised.

    Dreams of a Dark Warrior Kresley Cole 2011

  • Lucia wanted her to join the Skathians—the celibate archeress order she herself had entered—but Regin was too curious about coupling, too eager to discover what the warlord’s secretive smile that night had promised.

    Dreams of a Dark Warrior Kresley Cole 2011

  • Valkyrie of mysterious origin, world’s most skilled archeress

    Kresley Cole Immortals After Dark: The Clan MacRieve Kresley Cole 2010

  • Khnûmû seduced and married the two fairies of the neighbouring cataract -- Anûkît the constrainer, who compresses the Nile between its rocks at Philse and at Syene, and Satît the archeress, who shoots forth the current straight and swift as an arrow. [

    History Of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 1 (of 12) M. L. McClure 1881

  • Chapman); ‘shootress’ (Fairfax); ‘archeress’ (Fanshawe); ‘clientess’,

    English Past and Present Richard Chenevix Trench 1846

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