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painteress

painteress is the alternative form of paintress.

Meaning of paintress

Noun

paintress (plural paintresses)

  1. (archaic) A female painter.
    • Oosterwyck (Maria Van), a celebrated Dutch paintress of flowers and fruit, born at Nootdrop, a small town near Delft, in 1630.1838, John Gould, Biographical Dictionary of Painters, Sculptors, Engravers, and Architects, volume 2, London: G. and A. Greenland, Poultry, →OL, keyword “Oosterwyck”, page 380
    Synonyms:
    paintrix

Forms of painteress

pluralpainteresses

Questions about painteress

What is painteress the alternative form of?
Painteress is the alternative form of paintress.

Words near painteress in the dictionary

  1. painter's colic
  2. painter's tape
  3. painter's tapes
  4. painter-stainer
  5. painter-stainers
  6. painteress
  7. painteresses
  8. painteries
  9. painterish
  10. painterless
  11. painterlike

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Adapted from Wiktionary: painteress (page history and authors); paintress (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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