illustratress

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

illustrator +‎ -ess

Noun[edit]

illustratress (plural illustratresses)

  1. (rare) A female illustrator.
    • 1958, New York Botanical Garden, Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden, volume 10, page 169:
      The specific epithet commemorates my botanical illustratress.
    • 1971, Maxwell Struthers Burt, The Delectable Mountains, page 84:
      ...a younger authoress whose blond stern good looks concealed a heart equally stern and who was said sternly to support a worthless husband whom she sternly adored; and an illustrator, or rather illustratress, for it was a lady, whose cover designs of babies in every sort of snarled discomfort were the delight of editors who went home and were cross to their own children.
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