editress

English

Etymology

editor +‎ -ess

Noun

editress (plural editresses)

(dated) A female editor.
- 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XVII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, OCLC 1227855:
  “Girls like Phyllis Mills are an open book to me. For four years I was, if you remember, the proprietor and editress of a weekly paper for women.” She was alluding to the periodical entitled Milady's Boudoir [...]

Synonyms

editrix

Anagrams

desirest, desister, diesters, reedists, resisted, sistered

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