Dictionary

illustratress en · NOUN

Etymology

From illustrator + -ess.

Meanings

1. (rare) A female illustrator.
   • The specific epithet commemorates my botanical illustratress. 1958, New York Botanical Garden, Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden, volume 10, page 169:
   • ...a younger authoress whose blond stern good looks concealed a heart equally stern and who was said sternly to support a worthless husband whom she sternly adored; and an illustrator, or rather illustratress, for it was a lady, whose cover designs of babies in every sort of snarled discomfort were the delight of editors who went home and were cross to their own children. 1971, Maxwell Struthers Burt, The Delectable Mountains, page 84:

Forms