Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as spectatress.

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Examples

  • As for F---, he described a series of somersaults in the air, which however agreeable in themselves, were very trying to the nerves of the spectatrix below.

    Station Amusements 1871

  • There is also pleasant walkes in ye Cathedrall in the Cloysters and yt leades to ye discription of the Coronation in this place at ye bath ye 23d April wch I recieved ye relation off from a spectatrix it being ye day queen ann was Crowned, and is never performed unless when a queen is the Chiefe as Queen Elizabeth &c., her Sister our late Majesty's King William and Queen Mary because the queen was Joyn'd in the throne as principle, they representing ye Amazons consisting of the young Maids.

    Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary 1888

  • spectatrix animos ipsa iuuenca dabat. me quoque, qui multos, sed me sine caede, Cupido

    Love and War Ovid 1912

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