translatress

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Etymology

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From translator +‎ -ess.

Noun

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translatress (plural translatresses)

  1. (rare) A woman who translates.
    • 1673, Hannah Woolley, The Gentlewomans Companion[1], London: Dorman Newman, page 30:
      [] I shall forbear to speak of the incomparable worth and pregnant parts of some Gentlewomen lately deceased, as Mrs. Philips the ingenious Translatress of Pompey, &c. since what is extant of hers, or her Contemporaries will more at large express their matchless merit;
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