bandmistress
bandmistress noun: the conductor, leader, or musical director of a band.
Noun
bandmistress (plural bandmistresses)
- The conductor, leader, or musical director of a band.
- One of the Sisters is Superior, and she is assisted in the government by bandmistresses chosen from among the elder members, whose duty it is to watch lovingly and carefully over the members of their bands.1877, Charles Fuge Lowder, Twenty-one Years in S. George's Mission, An Account of Its Origin, Progress, and Works of Charity, page 57
- One is constantly seeing advertisements of missing bags, and purses, and lockets, and jewellery, dogs, and sometimes children, but never a lost bandmistress!1903, Haggerston S. Saviour's Priory, Memories of a Sister of S. Saviour's Priory, page 338
Forms of bandmistress
| plural | bandmistresses |
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Origin of bandmistress
From band + mistress.
Questions about bandmistress
- What does bandmistress mean?
- Bandmistress means the conductor, leader, or musical director of a band.
- What part of speech is bandmistress?
- Bandmistress is a noun.
- What is the plural of bandmistress?
- The plural of bandmistress is bandmistresses.
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