chantress
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English chaunteresse, from Old French chanteresse; equivalent to chanter + -ess.[1]
Noun
[edit]chantress (plural chantresses)
- A female singer or chanter.
- 1646 (indicated as 1645), John Milton, “Penseroso”, in Poems of Mr. John Milton, […], London: […] Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Mosely, […], →OCLC:
- Thee Chauntress, oft the woods among / I woo, to hear thy even song.
- 2010, Eileen Power, Medieval English Nunneries: C.1275 to 1535, page 567:
- On this occasion the abbess' kitchen had to provide each lady of the convent with half a goose, the two chantresses, as well as the four usual recipients, receiving doubles, and with a hen or a cock, the fratresses and the subprioress also receiving doubles.
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[edit]References
[edit]- ^ “chantress”, in Collins English Dictionary.: “late ME chanteresse. See chanter, -ess”