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.

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  • noun obsolete A female guide.

Etymologies

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guider +‎ -ess

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Examples

  • guideress’; ‘charmeress’ changed semicolon to comma superlatives as ‘griveousest’ grievousest

    English Past and Present Richard Chenevix Trench 1846

  • (= 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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