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captress en · NOUN

Etymology

From captor + -ess.

Meanings

1. a female captor.
   • Murmurs of expectation, like the purrings of hungry flame, arose from the nearest, who hoped to share in the good fortune of the sorcerer's captress. 1944, Clark Ashton Smith, Lost Worlds, U of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, page 261:
   • Where did the notion that its captress should be a virgin come from? Again, this was likely to be an Indian trait. 2014, The Mahabharata, Volume 2: Book 2: The Book of Assembly; Book 3: The Book of the Forest, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 192:
   • At least the captress gets, or thinks she has got, what she wants. 1867, Public Opinion, page 217:

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