bandmistress
nounEtymology
From band + mistress.
- derived from maistresse
- inherited from maistresse
Definitions
The conductor, leader, or musical director of a band.
- One of the Sisters is Superior, and she is assisted in the government by bandmistresses chosen from among the elder members, whose duty it is to watch lovingly and carefully over the members of their bands.
- One is constantly seeing advertisements of missing bags, and purses, and lockets, and jewellery, dogs, and sometimes children, but never a lost bandmistress!
- Past us marched a female band in white, a female bandmistress at the fore.
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA