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spectatress|spɛkˈteɪtrɪs|
[f. spectator: see -ess1 and cf. next.]
A female spectator.
1632J. Hayward tr. Biondi's Eromena 101 The Princesse that stood all this while an amazed spectatresse [etc.]. 1703Rowe Fair Penit. v. i, See where she stands! Spectatress of the Mischief which she made. 1759Johnson Idler No. 42 ⁋5 To be a daily spectatress of his vices. 1799Campbell Pleas. Hope i. 179 She, sad spectatress,..Watch'd the rude surge his shroudless corse that bore. 1844For. Q. Rev. XXXIII. 440 As soon as she appeared the other spectatresses were eclipsed. 1861Sat. Rev. 21 Dec. 648 Was the Grand Duchess a spectatress of the atrocity?
fig.1789E. Darwin Bot. Gard. I. 149 So should young Sympathy, in female form, Climb the tall rock, spectatress of the storm. 1791Cowper Iliad xi. 89 Discord, spectatress terrible. 1836Thirlwall Greece III. xix. 92 As she had been a quiet spectatress of the fall of Samos. |