donoress
nounEtymology From donor + -ess.
1
A female donor.
- The venerable recipient of the medal was so touched by the expressions of the fair donoresses, that he immediately suspended it from his neck, with a garter presented to him by the young lady in spangles who dances the Scotchische, after which they all supped together, and had a very merry evening of it until late on the following afternoon.1862 March 1, Vanity Fair, volume 5, page 104, column 1:
- If sometimes, in private, he grimaced over “the egg,” his manner to the donors and donoresses was all tactful thanks.1924, The Adelphi, volume 2, number 4, page 295:
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- It is remarkable that a lay-worshipper like the present donoress should have been enabled to obtain such bodily relics and further to erect such a Stupa over it, though there is no denying that she belonged by birth to the family of a rich merchant.1977, The Journal of Academy of Indian Numismatics & Sigillography, page 6:
- In spite of the length of the poem (26 verses), it is preferable to classify it as an inscription, and that because of its contents: The donoress prays for the recovery of her husband who suffers from high fever and for a good development of her own pregnancy.1987, Byzantinische Forschungen, page 243:
- The four donoresses in the lower area are dressed in robes of identical cut, which, however, were sewn from textiles with different patterns.2005, Nazan Olcer, Turks: A Journey of a Thousand Years, 600-1600, →ISBN, page 378: