donatress
donatress noun: a female donator.
Noun
donatress (plural donatresses)
- A female donator.
- The gallery at Brussels has, by-the-by, recently acquired a small Madonna which is palpably by the same hand as the donatress at Bruges and the Moulins altarpiece.1902, The Athenæum, page 388, column 3
- In contemplating the triptychs and altar-screens, Hughes dislodged from his mind the opulence of their colouring and the glow of their romance for the sake of realizing more vividly the pathos that emanated from the figures of the donators standing with folded hands, and the donatresses with their...1903, Thomas Watson Duncan, transl., Bruges-la-Morte: A Romance, Swan Sonnenschein & Co., translation of Bruges-la-Morte by Georges Rodenbach, 1892, pages 263–264
Synonyms of donatress
Forms of donatress
| plural | donatresses |
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Origin of donatress
From donator + -ess.
Questions about donatress
- What does donatress mean?
- Donatress means a female donator.
- What part of speech is donatress?
- Donatress is a noun.
- What is the plural of donatress?
- The plural of donatress is donatresses.
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