aviatrix
Americannoun
Gender
What's the difference between aviatrix and aviator? See -trix.
Etymology
Origin of aviatrix
Example Sentences
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On this date in 1915, aviatrix Katherine Stinson dropped Arizona’s first official air mail letters near the Tucson Post Office.
From Washington Times • Nov. 1, 2017
The special “Amelia Earhart: The Lost Evidence” revisits the still-fascinating 1937 disappearance of the legendary aviatrix.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 7, 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
In making the turn the monoplane flown by the Cuban aviatrix could not negotiate it at as sharp an angle as Peggy's machine, owing to its not being equipped with an equalizing, or stability device.
From The Girl Aviators' Motor Butterfly by Burnham, Margaret
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