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executioneresses

executioneresses is the plural of executioneress.

Meaning of executioneress

Noun

executioneress (plural executioneresses)

  1. (rare) A female executioner.
    • Twelve umbrellas, covering as many Bo-fetiche priestesses, followed by two brass shields, a large drum, two large scimitar-shaped blades, fretted as usual, and having skulls on the hilts, eighteen Bo Kpo in red avo, six executioneresses in leopard cloths of yellow with black spots, silver horns and...1874, J. A[lfred] Skertchly, “The So-Sin Custom—(continued)”, in Dahomey as It Is: Being a Narrative of Eight Months’ Residence in That Country, […], London: Chapman and Hall, […], page 267

Questions about executioneresses

What is executioneresses the plural of?
Executioneresses is the plural of executioneress.

Words near executioneresses in the dictionary

  1. execution-style
  2. executional
  3. executionary
  4. executioner
  5. executioneress
  6. executioneresses
  7. executioners
  8. executioning
  9. executionism
  10. executionist
  11. executionists

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