Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A female imitator.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A woman who is an imitator.
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- noun archaic A
female imitator .
Etymologies
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imitator + -ess
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Examples
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But when his imitatress perpetually laments and complains, because on the Maeler lake, under the 59th degree of latitude, she does not find the sultry southern climate -- it becomes worse than childish, and one is compelled to pity her.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 Various
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The daughter is an imitatress of Mrs. Damer, and has modelled a bust of her brother.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 Horace Walpole 1757
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