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traitress

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[trey-tris] / ˈtreɪ trɪs /
Also traitoress

noun

  1. a woman who is a traitor.


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

I thought her a thief and a traitress, and yet my eyes fell before her gaze.

From First Person Paramount by Pratt, Ambrose

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 Ober, Frederick Albion

So she had deceived him, after all; she had played the traitress from the very beginning.

From The Doomsman by Sutphen, Van Tassel

What had she become, on the spot, but a traitress to her friend?

From The Spoils of Poynton by James, Henry