Telecastress
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 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
More examples"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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