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printeress

printeress noun: a female printer.

Noun

printeress (plural printeresses)

  1. (dated) A female printer.
    • The “Historia Economico-politica y Estadistica de la Isla de Cuba,” (printed by the Widows of Arazoza y Soler, Printeresses of the Government, & c. Havana, 1831,)[…].1835, The American Journal of the Medical Sciences, Philadelphia, Pa.: Carey, Lea & Blanchard, page 550
    • Our Union is very small, only two offices, but we are hopeful of the future. No discontent. All harmony. We have one office in town that is anti-Union all over; it employs a lot of fair unfair printeresses. We hope they will repent before a century expires.1867 February 1, Printers’ Circular, volume I, number 12, page 164

Examples of printeress in a sentence

  • It patronizes the painter and the printer The painteresses and the printeresses will, no doubt, return the compliment.1872 April 25, “Local Miscellany”, in Nemaha Valley Journal, volume V, number 14; number 222, Falls City, Neb.:
  • One of our printeresses has got the dead wood on any jail, if she should ever be so unfortunate as to ever be locked up in one.1875 October 20, Topeka Daily Blade, number 406, Topeka, Kan.:
  • The Sixth New Jersey Band, about four hundred printers in line, a corps of apprentices, and two elegant banners—the gift of fair printeresses—are expected to accomplish the object.1882 October, The Printers’ Circular and Stationers and Publishers Gazette, volume XVII, number 8, Philadelphia, Pa.: R. S. Menamin, page...
  • By actual count there are just seven printers and two printeresses in town: but of course the two latter could not be depended upon as able-bodied base ballists.1889 May 2, “A Few Base Ball Suggestions”, in Democratic Times, volume 2, number 14, Hays City, Kan.:

Forms of printeress

pluralprinteresses
alternative formprintress

Origin of printeress

From printer + -ess.

Questions about printeress

What does printeress mean?
Printeress means a female printer.
How do you use printeress in a sentence?
It patronizes the painter and the printer The painteresses and the printeresses will, no doubt, return the compliment.
What part of speech is printeress?
Printeress is a noun.
What is the plural of printeress?
The plural of printeress is printeresses.

Words near printeress in the dictionary

  1. printer's reader
  2. printer's readers
  3. printer's ream
  4. printer-friendly
  5. printerdom
  6. printeress
  7. printeresses
  8. printeries
  9. printerless
  10. printerlike
  11. printers

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