Definitions
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- noun The position of a
headmistress . - noun The tenure of a
headmistress .
Etymologies
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From headmistress + -ship.
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Examples
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In all the years of my headmistress-ship here such a thing has not occurred before.
The Youngest Girl in the Fifth A School Story Angela Brazil 1907
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Roscoe's headmistress-ship, and the seventeenth anniversary of the school, we should endeavour to collect £100 to found a Rodenhurst cot in the Convalescent Home, "proclaimed Gwen.
The Youngest Girl in the Fifth A School Story Angela Brazil 1907
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