aviatrix
nounUK /ˈeɪ.vi.eɪ.tɹɪks/
Etymology From aviator + -trix.
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Dated A female aviator.
- “... — Did you know that she was an aviatrix?” he interjected.1969, William Dana Orcutt, Celebrities Off Parade: Pen-and-ink Portrait Sketches, →ISBN, page 111:
- The Women Flyers: From Aviatrix to Astronaut1987, Pat Browne, Heroines of Popular Culture, →ISBN, page 54:
3 more examples
- Hariet Quimby, a writer for Leslie's Weekly, in 1911 became the first American aviatrix and won international accalim in 1912 as the first woman to pilot a plan across the English Channel.2001, Roger E. Bilstein, Flight in America: From the Wrights to the Astronauts, →ISBN, page 22:
- In 1929 she turned an ide that she ‘stole’ from her son into a screenplay, Wings in the Dark, featuring a protagonist based on Ameria Earhart, the famous aviatrix with whom Shipman was acquainted...2002, Deena Mandrell, Deadbeat Dads: Subjectivity and Social Construction, →ISBN, page 307:
- 2018 summary of 2009 film Amelia From the time she first sits in the pilot's seat, aviatrix Amelia Earhart (Hilary Swank) feels destined to achieve great things.
- Coordinate terms
- aviator