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inspectress

noun

Etymology

From inspector + -ess.

  1. borrowed from īnspector
  2. suffixed as inspectress — “inspector + ess”

Definitions

  1. A female inspector.

    • They haven't made you an inspectress of boarded-out workhouse children, have they? or sent you down to improve the breed of hens?

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