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matadoress

matadoress noun: a female matador.

Noun

matadoress (plural matadoresses)

  1. A female matador.
    • Actually there was recently a talented young female bassoonist who gave up a promising career on that sturdy instrument, not to do something more feminine but to take up bullfighting. This is Patricia Hayes of San Angelo, Texas, who has had spectacular success in the arenas of Mexico and Portugal....1956 December 24, Cornelia Otis Skinner, “Women are misguided: They are still waging a shrill, ridiculous war over the dead issue of feminism”, in Life, volume 41, number 26, page 75
    Synonyms:
    matadora

Synonyms of matadoress

Forms of matadoress

pluralmatadoresses

Origin of matadoress

From matador + -ess.

Questions about matadoress

What does matadoress mean?
Matadoress means a female matador.
What part of speech is matadoress?
Matadoress is a noun.
What is the plural of matadoress?
The plural of matadoress is matadoresses.

Words near matadoress in the dictionary

  1. matador
  2. matadora
  3. matadoras
  4. matadore
  5. matadores
  6. matadoress
  7. matadorial
  8. matadorlike
  9. matadors
  10. mataeology
  11. mataeotechny

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