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taskmistresses

taskmistresses is the plural of taskmistress.

Meaning of taskmistress

Noun

taskmistress (plural taskmistresses)

  1. A woman who assigns tasks; a female overseer.
    • Not only under the laſh of my taſk-miſtreſs, but the drudge of the maid, apprentices and children, I never had a taſte of human kindneſs to ſoften the rigour of perpetual labour.1798, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, “[Maria: or, The] Wrongs of Woman”, in W[illiam] Godwin, editor, Posthumous Works of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. […], volume I, London: […]...

Questions about taskmistresses

What is taskmistresses the plural of?
Taskmistresses is the plural of taskmistress.

Words near taskmistresses in the dictionary

  1. taskmaster
  2. taskmasterly
  3. taskmasters
  4. taskmastership
  5. taskmistress
  6. taskmistresses
  7. taskpad
  8. taskpads
  9. tasks
  10. taskscape
  11. taskscapes

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