aviatrix
Americannoun
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What's the difference between aviatrix and aviator? See -trix.
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Origin of aviatrix
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It is still legally named Bob Hope, after the entertainer, and not, to my perpetual surprise, for the aviatrix who helped to put it on the map, Amelia Earhart.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 2023
On this date in 1929, Lady Mary Heath, British aviatrix, stopped in Yuma during her aerial tour of the United States.
From Washington Times ● May 24, 2017
So he proposed a barter exchange with celebrated aviatrix Florence “Pancho” Barnes: He would milk cows and shovel manure on her ranch, and she would give him flying lessons.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 16, 2015
I see Lady Edith becoming a barnstorming aviatrix, but perhaps that’s for Season 4.
From Slate ● Feb. 21, 2012
Miss Helen Goodrich, who is an aviatrix of note, was arrested in Bremen this morning charged with kidnapping.
From News Writing The Gathering , Handling and Writing of News Stories by Spencer, M. Lyle (Matthew Lyle)
Dared the Commission flout the honest aviatrices of France ?
From Time Magazine Archive
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