traitress
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of traitress
1400–50; late Middle English traitresse < Old French; traitor, -ess
Example Sentences
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The soldiers followed the horse for some distance into the desert to prevent its returning, and thus perished the beautiful traitress of Kerman.
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One day he came a changed, and moody man, and threw himself into a chair, crying "Ah, traitress! traitress!"
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Do you deny that your daughter is a traitress?
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Seize that bold traitress!—stop her hated croak!
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"If," said George, gazing sternly at his traitress, "you do not go now, of your own will, I must drive you, man though I am, violently from the garden."
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