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broadcastress en · NOUN

Etymology

From broadcaster + -ess.

Meanings

1. (dated, rare) A female broadcaster.
   • Jane Wyman (right), Kansas City broadcastress, whom Warner has placed under contract for screen roles. 1936 June 6, “This Week in Pictures”, in Motion Picture Herald, volume 123, number 10, page 44:
   • But I suppose one can’t steal the time a dozen or two sponsors are paying for to talk personal stuff even if it’s about their own broadcastress! 1943 October 23, “Zoe Beckley’s Column”, in Muncie Evening Press, volume L, number 266, Muncie, Ind., page 2, column 6:
   • Lotus Long is portraying the broadcastress named in the title, and Osa Massen, Byron Barr and Don Douglas are in the cast. 1945 September 22, “New High of 51 in Work; Five Finished, 8 Shooting”, in Motion Picture Herald, volume 160, number 12, page 47, column 2:
   • To the Broadcastresses.[…]Your voice, be’t ne’er so sweet and low, / Is raucous on the radio. 1931 July 5, F. P. A., The Kansas City Star, volume 51, number 291, Kansas City, Mo., page 10 D, column 6:
   • The WCBS (N. Y.) broadcastress, with three other vimful and vigorous grannies, are here encased in a series of Anglo-French-Italo travelogs done with diverting prose and an eye on the anecdotal snapper. 1954 March 10, “Literati”, in Variety, volume 194, number 1, New York, N.Y., page 69, column 1:
   • The interest in people she developed on those trips is responsible for her present success as a broadcastress, she believes. 1937 September 17, Norman Siegel, “Kathryn Cravens, Flying Reporter, Is Radio Version of ‘Sob-Sister’”, in Wilkes-Barre Times Leader, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., page 26:

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