aviatrix
Americannoun
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aviatrices
plural
Gender
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
And according to Sammie Morris, archivist of the Earhart collection at Purdue University, they will cast the aviatrix in a new light.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 14, 2021
On this date in 1929, Lady Mary Heath, a British aviatrix, stopped in Yuma during her aerial tour of the United States.
From Washington Times ● May 23, 2018
A line of chatter about a pioneering aviatrix runs through the season opener.
From Slate ● Sep. 14, 2012
“Well, now, I’ll just put the finishing touch on the engine and then I’ll be ready,” said the aviatrix, who had introduced herself as Ruth Moore.
From The Motor Girls in the Mountains or, The Gypsy Girl's Secret by Margaret Penrose
Dared the Commission flout the honest aviatrices of France ?
From Time Magazine Archive
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