investigatress
investigatress noun: a female investigator.
Noun
investigatress (plural investigatresses)
- A female investigator.
- As many of these are microscopic, a most promising field will, without doubt, open to the investigators and investigatresses who shall enter therein.1895, [Frank Haak Lattin], “Second Year at Penikese; Laboratory Work, More Lectures, Familiar Daily Scenes, Recollections of Agassiz, Theodore Lyman on Fish Culture”, in Penikese: A Reminiscence...
- La reine mit les pistolets à part avec la lettre, en attendant mieux; c’était un commencement d’indice qui pouvait conduire à la vérité.1903, Alexandre Dumas, translated by Henry L[lewellyn] Williams, “In the Dark”, in The Lovely Lady Hamilton (“Emma Lyonna”) or The Beauty and the Glory: An Historical Romance of Royalty and...
- Synonyms:
- investigatrix
Examples of investigatress in a sentence
- An “investigatress” comes to the institution and endeavors to prove the knight errant a thief. […] Maude Raymond as the investigatress does a most laughable imitation of Mrs.1910 June 18, “Plays and Players”, in Brooklyn Life, volume XLI, number 1059, Brooklyn, N.Y., page 22:
- The suitors may never perceive what the test is: the investigatress knows admirably.1912, James Lane Allen, chapter II, in The Heroine in Bronze or A Portrait of a Girl: A Pastoral of the City, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan...
- There is a lady in Texas who is surely an investigatress.1919 September 26, ““Chumps” Are the Consumer and Producer”, in The Labor Journal, volume XXVIII, number 22, Everett, Wash., page one...
- When the Arizona Federation of Democratic Women’s Clubs publicly denounced the investigatresses, no hair was pulled because no one knew whose hair to pull.1937 February 3, “Women Vigilantes”, in Des Moines Tribune, volume 56, number 144, Des Moines, Ia., page six, column 1:
Synonyms of investigatress
Forms of investigatress
| plural | investigatresses |
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Origin of investigatress
From investigator + -ess.
Questions about investigatress
- What does investigatress mean?
- Investigatress means a female investigator.
- How do you use investigatress in a sentence?
- An “investigatress” comes to the institution and endeavors to prove the knight errant a thief. […] Maude Raymond as the investigatress does a most laughable imitation of Mrs.
- What part of speech is investigatress?
- Investigatress is a noun.
- What is the plural of investigatress?
- The plural of investigatress is investigatresses.
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