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professoress|prəʊˈfɛsərɪs|
[f. professor n. + -ess1.]
A female professor.
(Also used for Ger. Professorin, wife of a professor.)
1740–87Lett. Miss Talbot, etc. (1808) 34 Nor can [I] be so happy as to have any assistance from the professoress in fine speeches. 1845Athenæum Feb. 204 A Symphony by a Parisian professoress, Madame Farrenc, was performed. 1848Sara Coleridge in Q. Rev. Mar. 440 Descriptions are given of the College, and some lecturing of one of the professoresses is reported. 1850Kingsley Misc. I. Tennyson 228 The female college, with its professoresses, and hostleresses, and other Utopian monsters. 1886W. J. Tucker E. Europe 352 The worshipful Mr. Professor Zachariah, and..his wife, the worshipful Mrs. Professoress Zachariah. |