Observeress

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A female observer. rare

    "Meteors To-Night.—[…]There is nothing so beautiful and so well calculated to develop the (sentimental) faculties as the study of astronomy, in classes of two, of a summer’s night, so we are told, and ’tis presumable that the observers and observeresses will be numerous to-night."

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"Meteors To-Night.—[…]There is nothing so beautiful and so well calculated to develop the (sentimental) faculties as the study of astronomy, in classes of two, of a summer’s night, so we are told, and ’tis presumable that the observers and observeresses will be numerous to-night."

Etymology

From observer + -ess.

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