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- noun Plural form of
progenitress .
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She sat by the fire, folding her skirts across her knees, and showing the edges of the most discouragingly beautiful petticoats, -- a taste perhaps inherited from her wide-hipped Dutch progenitresses.
The Desert and the Sown Mary Hallock Foote 1892
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