captress
nounEtymology From captor + -ess.
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a female captor.
- At least the captress gets, or thinks she has got, what she wants.1867, Public Opinion, page 217:
- 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:
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- 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: