editress
Americannoun
Gender
See -ess.
Etymology
Origin of editress
Example Sentences
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Miss Ishbel MacDonald, who so excellently acted as hostess at No. 10 Downing Street for her father during his tenure of the Premiership, commenced, last week, to function as an editress.
From Time Magazine Archive
He's a newspaper editress an' rich as cream.
From Lovey Mary by Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice
The work did not sound very formidable, but when Laura Kirby, as editress for St. Cyprian's, began to get her material together she realized some of the thorns which beset the journalistic path.
From The Girls of St. Cyprian's A Tale of School Life by Angela Brazil
The distracted editress had to be very stern in marking out passages which she considered were not strictly necessary, and insisting upon their omission.
From The Girls of St. Cyprian's A Tale of School Life by Angela Brazil
He died in 1792, and she married again in 1798, Mrs. Barrett, the editress of the "Diary and Letters of Madame d'Arblay," was Charlotte's daughter by her first marriage.
From The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 1 by Fanny Burney
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