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illustratress

illustratress noun: a female illustrator.

Noun

illustratress (plural illustratresses)

  1. (rare) A female illustrator.
    • The specific epithet commemorates my botanical illustratress.1958, New York Botanical Garden, Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden, volume 10, page 169
    • ...a younger authoress whose blond stern good looks concealed a heart equally stern and who was said sternly to support a worthless husband whom she sternly adored; and an illustrator, or rather illustratress, for it was a lady, whose cover designs of babies in every sort of snarled discomfort were...1971, Maxwell Struthers Burt, The Delectable Mountains, page 84

Forms of illustratress

pluralillustratresses

Origin of illustratress

From illustrator + -ess.

Questions about illustratress

What does illustratress mean?
Illustratress means a female illustrator.
What part of speech is illustratress?
Illustratress is a noun.
What is the plural of illustratress?
The plural of illustratress is illustratresses.

Words near illustratress in the dictionary

  1. illustratively
  2. illustrativeness
  3. illustrator
  4. illustrators
  5. illustratory
  6. illustratress
  7. illustratresses
  8. illustre
  9. illustrious
  10. illustriously
  11. illustriousness

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