Telecastress

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A female television broadcaster. dated, rare

    "Toni Holt, Hollywood gossip telecastress, reported on Channel 8’s 1 o’clock news recently that Cosmopolitan’s permissive-thinking editoress, Helen Gurley Brown, told her that she was planning to inaugurate the nude male centerfold in rebuttal to Playboy’s celebrated trademark of the nude lady."

Example

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"Toni Holt, Hollywood gossip telecastress, reported on Channel 8’s 1 o’clock news recently that Cosmopolitan’s permissive-thinking editoress, Helen Gurley Brown, told her that she was planning to inaugurate the nude male centerfold in rebuttal to Playboy’s celebrated trademark of the nude lady."

Etymology

From telecaster + -ess.

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