Definition of Directresses

1. Noun. (plural of directress) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Directresses

1. directress [n] - See also: directress

Lexicographical Neighbors of Directresses

director of research
directorate
directorates
directorial
directorially
directories
directorless
directors
directorship
directorships
directory
directoryless
directour
directours
directress
directresses (current term)
directrice
directrices
directrix
directrixes
directs
direful
direfully
direly
dirempt
dirempted
dirempting
diremption
diremptions
dirempts

Literary usage of Directresses

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Report by United States Congress. Joint select committee to investigate charities and reformatory institutions in the District of Columbia, Charles James Faulkner, James McMillan, Charles Moore (1898)
"The board of directresses having charge of the internal and domestic government of the institution have supervision over all applications for admission, ..."

2. The Semi-centennial Volume of the Eliot Church, Lowell, Mass.: Containing a by John M. Greene (1881)
"directresses: Mrs. Joel Jenkins, Mrs. John Morrison, Mrs. Norman Burnham. ... Secretary and Treasurer, Mrs. James P. Nourse. directresses: ..."

3. Documentary History of Education in Upper Canada: From the Passing of the by Ontario Dept. of Education, John George Hodgins (1907)
"The said directresses, Office-bearers arid Managers shall keep, or cause to be kept, in a Book to be opened for that purpose, a list of all Subscribers to ..."

4. First Anniversary of the Woman's Hospital: Held at Clinton Hall, Astor Place by Woman's Hospital (New York, N.Y.), N.Y. Woman's Hospital (New York (1856)
"The business of the Association shall bo conducted by three directresses, ... The directresses shall have power to call at any time on any of the Officers ..."

5. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1883)
"And I do hereby nominate, as the first trustees, managers, or directresses of said hospital, Mrs. Louisa F. Gilmer, Sarah Owens, Mary Elliott, ..."

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