traitress

[ trey-tris ]

noun

1. a woman who is a traitor.

Word History and Origins

Origin of traitress¹

1400–50; late Middle English traitresse < Old French; traitor, -ess

Example Sentences

First I hated you, when I dreamed you to be but a courtesan traitress.

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Exemplify the sibilant impurity with such syllables as pish, false, traitress, miscreant.

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Hereupon, methought, this traitress Dorcas hied back to the lady, and made report of what she had done.

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So then he gat his sword in his hand and said: Thou traitress, what art thou that I have lain by all this night?

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The subtitles fairly hissed to the sibilant swishing of such words as traitress, temptress, tigress and sorceress.

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