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taskmistress
[ task-mis-tris, tahsk- ]
noun
- a woman whose function it is to assign tasks, especially burdensome ones, to others.
- a woman who supervises others' work rigorously.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of taskmistress1
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Example Sentences
She looked up at Chiswick appealingly but saw only a stern taskmistress.
But already some conception that we were under a hard taskmistress was dawning upon us.
For one blessed three-quarters of an hour before I finished the taskmistress was away.
Aphrodite is a hard taskmistress, and the mysterious bond of beauty which chains Helen to her cannot be broken.
Then our taskmistress appeared just as the floor was finished; she had forgotten the store room, it was locked up and not cleaned.
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