Professoress

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A female professor. archaic

    "At the end of the first cantos, fresh from the description of the female college, with its professoresses, and hostleresses, and other Utopian monsters"

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professorineprofestrix

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"At the end of the first cantos, fresh from the description of the female college, with its professoresses, and hostleresses, and other Utopian monsters"

Etymology

From professor + -ess.

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