captress
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
captress (plural captresses)
- a female captor.
- 1867, Public Opinion, page 217:
- At least the captress gets, or thinks she has got, what she wants.
- 1944, Clark Ashton Smith, Lost Worlds, U of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, page 261:
- 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.
- 2014, The Mahabharata, Volume 2: Book 2: The Book of Assembly; Book 3: The Book of the Forest, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 192:
- Where did the notion that its captress should be a virgin come from? Again, this was likely to be an Indian trait.