photographeress

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English

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Etymology

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From photographer +‎ -ess.

Noun

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photographeress (plural photographeresses)

  1. (rare) A female photographer.
    • 1891, The Oberlin Review:
      Miss Ring has become a crack amateur photographeress, and recently favored her Oberlin friends with some beautiful "snap shots" of French peasant women...
    • 1975, E M Broner, Her Mothers:
      "The photographeress?" "The woman photographer of your firm." "She's not here now. She's off taking pictures of Southern coastal trees."
    • 1998, Heinz K Henisch, Positive Pleasures: Early Photography and Humor:
      As your charming photographeress cannot explain by word what she wishes...

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