superintendentess

English

Etymology

superintendent +‎ -ess

Noun

superintendentess (plural superintendentesses)

1. a female superintendent.
   • 1854, Littell's Living Age, page 286:

     At the first word she raised her to the functions of superintendentess of her household, breaking by violence, in order to bring her nearer to herself, all the rights. and disregarding the murmurs, of persons more anciently belonging to the court.

   • 1921, Sweater News: The Journal of the Sweater and Fancy Knit Goods Trade, page 127:

     I was introduced to a superintendentess, if you will, and taken through the mill.

   • 1977, William R. Roalfe, John Henry Wigmore: scholar and reformer, Northwestern Univ Pr:

     The superintendentess' excuse was that lately there had been only one or two of us coming, sometimes none.