chantress

American  

[chan-tris, chahn-] / ˈtʃæn trɪs, ˈtʃɑn- /

noun

1. a woman who chants or sings.

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Gender

What's the difference between chantress and chanter? See -ess.

Etymology

Origin of chantress

First recorded in 1400–50; late Middle English chanteresse; chanter + -ess

Example Sentences

Inscriptions on the casket say she was a "chantress", or singer, for the god Amun, probably at the Temple of Karnak.

From Reuters • Apr. 10, 2014

If she is delighted with the chants, Honeyman is delighted with the chantress and her mamma.

From The Newcomes Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family by Thackeray, William Makepeace

Milton sang:— "Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy, Thee, chantress, oft the woods among I woo, to hear thy evening song."

From Birds and Poets : with Other Papers by Burroughs, John

Geseke Obrecht and Heylewich the chantress are very sorrowful, because they did not say goodbye to you, for they did not know you were going so early.

From Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 by Power, Eileen

Another lady, whom I did not know, was tremulous with excitement, and I could well imagine what might have taken place when the "impassioned chantress" sang and enacted Semiramide as I have heard it described.

From Yesterdays with Authors by Fields, James T.