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printeress

noun

Etymology

From printer + -ess.

  1. inherited from *printen✻
  2. suffixed as printer — “print + er”
  3. suffixed as printeress — “printer + ess”

Definitions

  1. A female printer.

    • The “Historia Economico-politica y Estadistica de la Isla de Cuba,” (printed by the Widows of Arazoza y Soler, Printeresses of the Government, & c. Havana, 1831,)[…].
    • The new millinery establishment evidently means business. It patronizes the painter and the printer The painteresses and the printeresses will, no doubt, return the compliment.

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