rectoress

English

Etymology

rector +‎ -ess

Noun

rectoress (plural rectoresses)

  1. A governess; a rectrix.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Drayton to this entry?)
  2. The wife of a rector.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Thackeray to this entry?)

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for rectoress in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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