Spellmistress
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A female expert or consummate spellcaster.
"Kill an Aravu spellmistress."
- 2 A woman in charge of running a spelling bee.
"The 14th annual Ottawa county rural school Spelling Bee will be held in Miami April 7 under the sponsorship of County Supt. Fred Jimerson and the News-Record. […] Again this year, Miss Vesta Fisk of the Miami high school faculty will serve as spellmistress, Jimerson said."
Example
More examples"A dryad could carry only one spell and it was entirely at the whim of the spellmistress as to which of the ten or so spells at her command she used."
Etymology
From spell + mistress.
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