Litteratrice

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Female equivalent of litterateur (“literary writer”). feminine, form-of

    ""She became a flamboyant litteratrice and celebrated controversialist, turning out both fantastic narratives and, through the thinly veiled mouthpieces who were her protagonists, streams of opinion on the urgent social issues of the moment.""

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litterateuselitterateuse

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""She became a flamboyant litteratrice and celebrated controversialist, turning out both fantastic narratives and, through the thinly veiled mouthpieces who were her protagonists, streams of opinion on the urgent social issues of the moment.""

Etymology

From French littératrice or from Latin litteratrix.

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