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  • noun rare A female editor.

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Examples

  • And l'editrix is starting to get antsy for something to mock-up the copy around. * sigh*

    Water of Life suricattus 2004

  • If I were scripting this whole thing as a "Wag The Dog" dark satire (I might start on that tonight), I would have editrix Joanna Coles and some white-haired, CBS honcho (who vaguely understands twitter as something his grandkids use) meeting in a suite at The Four Seasons with the slick 23 year-old social media mastermind who's making this whole thing go click, click, click.

    Erica Kennedy: Are Marie Claire and CBS Wagging the Dog? Erica Kennedy 2010

  • The rapper looked at ease when yukking it up with Vogue Japan's editrix, Anna Dello Russo, in between shows or attending the Metropolitan Museum Gala with designer and "queen of Prep," Tory Burch, on his arm.

    Marjon Rebecca Carlos: Pret-a-Parler: Kanye's Debut Conversation With Style Marjon Rebecca Carlos 2011

  • The rapper looked at ease when yukking it up with Vogue Japan's editrix, Anna Dello Russo, in between shows or attending the Metropolitan Museum Gala with designer and "queen of Prep," Tory Burch, on his arm.

    Marjon Rebecca Carlos: Pret-a-Parler: Kanye's Debut Conversation With Style Marjon Rebecca Carlos 2011

  • The rapper looked at ease when yukking it up with Vogue Japan's editrix, Anna Dello Russo, in between shows or attending the Metropolitan Museum Gala with designer and "queen of Prep," Tory Burch, on his arm.

    Marjon Rebecca Carlos: Pret-a-Parler: Kanye's Debut Conversation With Style Marjon Rebecca Carlos 2011

  • If I were scripting this whole thing as a "Wag The Dog" dark satire (I might start on that tonight), I would have editrix Joanna Coles and some white-haired, CBS honcho (who vaguely understands twitter as something his grandkids use) meeting in a suite at The Four Seasons with the slick 23 year-old social media mastermind who's making this whole thing go click, click, click.

    Erica Kennedy: Are Marie Claire and CBS Wagging the Dog? Erica Kennedy 2010

  • If I were scripting this whole thing as a "Wag The Dog" dark satire (I might start on that tonight), I would have editrix Joanna Coles and some white-haired, CBS honcho (who vaguely understands twitter as something his grandkids use) meeting in a suite at The Four Seasons with the slick 23 year-old social media mastermind who's making this whole thing go click, click, click.

    Erica Kennedy: Are Marie Claire and CBS Wagging the Dog? Erica Kennedy 2010

  • If I were scripting this whole thing as a "Wag The Dog" dark satire (I might start on that tonight), I would have editrix Joanna Coles and some white-haired, CBS honcho (who vaguely understands twitter as something his grandkids use) meeting in a suite at The Four Seasons with the slick 23 year-old social media mastermind who's making this whole thing go click, click, click.

    Erica Kennedy: Are Marie Claire and CBS Wagging the Dog? Erica Kennedy 2010

  • If I were scripting this whole thing as a "Wag The Dog" dark satire (I might start on that tonight), I would have editrix Joanna Coles and some white-haired, CBS honcho (who vaguely understands twitter as something his grandkids use) meeting in a suite at The Four Seasons with the slick 23 year-old social media mastermind who's making this whole thing go click, click, click.

    Erica Kennedy: Are Marie Claire and CBS Wagging the Dog? Erica Kennedy 2010

  • If I were scripting this whole thing as a "Wag The Dog" dark satire (I might start on that tonight), I would have editrix Joanna Coles and some white-haired, CBS honcho (who vaguely understands twitter as something his grandkids use) meeting in a suite at The Four Seasons with the slick 23 year-old social media mastermind who's making this whole thing go click, click, click.

    Erica Kennedy: Are Marie Claire and CBS Wagging the Dog? Erica Kennedy 2010

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  • A female editor.

    February 6, 2007

  • Ouch. It sounds painful.

    Okay, it IS painful.

    February 6, 2007

  • From what I know from writers/reporters, editors are always painful.

    February 7, 2007

  • Painful to *be* one or painful to others? ;-) (Watch out--here be editors!)

    February 16, 2007

  • I'm an editor and I'm okay

    I sleep all night and I work all day

    (chorus)

    She's an editor and she's okay

    She sleeps all night and she works all day

    I cut down text, I eat my lunch,

    I go to the lavatryyyyyy

    Tuesdays I go to Photo Services

    And check with thevisualresourceslibrarianaboutarranging photographyyyy...

    I check syntax, I use big words

    I like to wear short skirts

    Weekends I get wasted

    And dance on table-tops.

    September 28, 2007

  • Bravo c_b!

    September 28, 2007

  • Wow. Powerful.

    September 28, 2007

  • The plural would be editrices? Nice.

    September 29, 2007

  • I first saw this word in an Atlantic Monthly article in 2009. I think it is the feminine form of editor, just as aviatrix is the feminine form of aviator. This is a word I don't like.

    June 9, 2009

  • When I was in French class at my local community college, I was sure this was how I would have to describe myself. Instead I got to say, "Je suis rédactrice."

    January 21, 2010

  • See additional comments on editor.

    July 23, 2011