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marineress

marineress noun: a female mariner.

Noun

marineress (plural marineresses)

  1. (dated) A female mariner.
    • About nine, however, the good woman came on deck, intending to take a look at the weather, like a skilful marineress as she was, before she turned in.1846, J[ames] Fenimore Cooper, “Captain Spike; or, The Islets of the Gulf”, in Bentley’s Miscellany, volume XX, London: Richard Bentley, pages 543–544
    • That bold little marineress, Mrs. Captain Maguire, who brought the ship Chieftain (of Philadelphia) into New York from Calcutta, has been presented by the underwriters on the vessel in Boston and Philadelphia with a check for $1000.1869 April 24, “Personal”, in Harper’s Bazaar: A Repository of Fashion, Pleasure, and Instruction, volume II, number 17, New York, N.Y., page 259

Examples of marineress in a sentence

  • But, of course, the crew of the Hot Cross Bun are nothing to the marineress whose sex has only just been discovered.1898 November 4, “This Busy World”, in Manchester Weekly Times, number 2152, page 5:
  • Then out Lafayette street, until the last of the hardy marineresses left the slow but safe craft.1931 February 3, “Junior League Uses Elephant To Help Sales”, in The Tampa Daily Times, thirty-eighth year, number 309, Tampa, Fla., pages...
  • “Well, I’ll teach you, and when I get through with you, you’ll be a master marineress.”1934 May 16, Rob Eden [pen name of Robert Ferdiand Burkhardt and his wife Eve], “Jennifer Hale: Nita Says That Kent’s Interest in Mary Will...

Forms of marineress

pluralmarineresses

Origin of marineress

From mariner + -ess.

Questions about marineress

What does marineress mean?
Marineress means a female mariner.
How do you use marineress in a sentence?
But, of course, the crew of the Hot Cross Bun are nothing to the marineress whose sex has only just been discovered.
What part of speech is marineress?
Marineress is a noun.
What is the plural of marineress?
The plural of marineress is marineresses.

Words near marineress in the dictionary

  1. mariner
  2. mariner's compass
  3. mariner's compasses
  4. marinera
  5. marineras
  6. marineress
  7. marineresses
  8. Marinero
  9. mariners
  10. marinership
  11. marines

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