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captress

noun

Etymology

From captor + -ess.

  1. derived from capiō
  2. borrowed from captor
  3. suffixed as captress — “captor + ess”

Definitions

  1. a female captor.

    • At least the captress gets, or thinks she has got, what she wants.
    • Murmurs of expectation, like the purrings of hungry flame, arose from the nearest, who hoped to share in the good fortune of the sorcerer's captress.
    • Where did the notion that its captress should be a virgin come from? Again, this was likely to be an Indian trait.

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