traitress
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of traitress
1400–50; late Middle English traitresse < Old French; see traitor, -ess
Example Sentences
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The more central, social prob lem of the book resolves to this: Fleur Mont, called "snob" by free-and-easy, expressionistic Marjorie Ferrar, retorts with "traitress," "snake," "no morals."
From Time Magazine Archive
She did not ask why, for she knew, and he did not waste words in telling her that she was a traitress, and was solely responsible for what had occurred to him.
From Vasco Nu?ez de Balboa by Frederick Albion Ober
Do you deny that your daughter is a traitress?
From The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies by Israel Zangwill
Woe is me!" lisped Master Flea; "who could have imagined that the little traitress would have conquered?
From Specimens of German Romance; Vol. II. Master Flea Selected and Translated from Various Authors by Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann
La Belle Quéro might be a traitress, a conspirator, but was it his mission to unmask her?
From The Intriguers by William Le Queux
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