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captainess

noun

Etymology

From Middle English captensse; equivalent to captain + -ess. Piecewise doublet of chieftainess.

  1. inherited from captensse

Definitions

  1. female captain

    • the captainesses of industry

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA