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单词 spectatress
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spectatressn.

Brit. /spɛkˈteɪtrᵻs/, U.S. /spɛkˈteɪtrəs/
Etymology: < spectator n.: see -ess suffix1 and compare spectatrix n.
A female spectator.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > one who sees > [noun] > beholder or spectator
showerOE
beholderc1374
lookera1382
espiouressc1430
considererc1449
overseerc1450
regarder1525
surveyor1558
viewer1565
spectatora1586
regardant1590
aspector1603
supervisor1610
eyer1611
spectatrix1611
spectatress1632
speculator1647
contemplator1658
attender1665
espier1860
1632 J. Hayward tr. G. F. Biondi Eromena 101 The Princesse that stood all this while an amazed spectatresse [etc.].
1703 N. Rowe Fair Penitent v. i See where she stands! Spectatress of the Mischief which she made.
1759 Idler 3 Feb. 33 To be a daily spectatress of his vices.
1799 T. Campbell Pleasures of Hope & Other Poems i. 179 She, sad spectatress,..Watch'd the rude surge his shroudless corse that bore.
1844 Foreign Q. Rev. 33 440 As soon as she appeared the other spectatresses were eclipsed.
1861 Sat. Rev. 21 Dec. 648 Was the Grand Duchess a spectatress of the atrocity?
figurative.1789 E. Darwin Bot. Garden I. 149 So should young Sympathy, in female form, Climb the tall rock, spectatress of the storm.1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Iliad in Iliad & Odyssey I. xi. 89 Discord, spectatress terrible.1836 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece III. xix. 92 As she had been a quiet spectatress of the fall of Samos.
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