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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A woman who translates, in any sense of that word.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A woman who translates.

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  • noun A woman who translates.

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Examples

  • Of a slight, delicate figure, with a shower of dark curls falling on either side of a most expressive face, large tender eyes, richly fringed by dark eyelashes, a smile like a sunbeam, and such a look of youthfulness that I had some difficulty in persuading a friend ... that the translatress of the

    Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 Charles Herbert Sylvester

  • Here spirituality the translatress, the openly-avow'd,

    Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman 1855

  • It was to oblige Lady Craven, - the translatress; and will be an aggravation of my offence to Sir

    The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 Horace Walpole 1757

  • a look of youthfulness that I had some difficulty in persuading a friend, in whose carriage we went together to Chiswick, that the translatress of the "Prometheus" of Aeschylus, the authoress of the

    The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2) 1907

  • My writing this to you reminds me of a letter which I received yesterday from Claparede, who helped the French translatress of the "Origin" (615/3.

    More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 Charles Darwin 1845

  • [Footnote 15: Daughter of S.T. Coleridge, Esq.; an accomplished linguist in the Greek and Latin tongues, and translatress of a History of the

    The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 4 Poems and Plays Charles Lamb 1804

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