Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A female guide or leader.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A female guide.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete A
female guide .
Etymologies
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guider + -ess
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Examples
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‘guideress’; ‘charmeress’ changed semicolon to comma superlatives as ‘griveousest’ grievousest
English Past and Present Richard Chenevix Trench 1846
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(= sultana), ‘guideress’, ‘charmeress’ (all in Chaucer); and others, which however we may have now let them fall, reached to far later periods of the language; thus ‘vanqueress’ (Fabyan); ‘poisoneress’
English Past and Present Richard Chenevix Trench 1846
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