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Definition of Conductresses
1. conductress [n] - See also: conductress
Lexicographical Neighbors of Conductresses
Literary usage of Conductresses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New York Times Current History (1917)
"In several instances there were passages of arms between drivers and the more
considerate conductresses. " As the firing grew heavier, however, ..."
2. South America, Social, Industrial, and Political: A Twenty-five-thousand by Frank George Carpenter (1900)
"The conductresses wear sailor hats, dark dresses, and white aprons, ...
The conductresses are usually honest, but the companies have spotters, men spies who ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1850)
"The stranger, with a better grace than might have been expected, followed his
conductresses to the depository of the military stores, and gravely selected ..."
4. The Professor by Charlotte Brontë, Anne Brontë, Patrick Brontë (1900)
"The conductresses of this school were of my acquaintances ; and though I cannot
say that they occupied the very highest place in my opinion—for they had ..."
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