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Definition of Directresses
1. directress [n] - See also: directress
Lexicographical Neighbors of Directresses
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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