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Definition of Traitresses
1. traitress [n] - See also: traitress
Lexicographical Neighbors of Traitresses
Literary usage of Traitresses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of Crime in England: Illustrating the Changes of the Laws in the by Luke Owen Pike (1876)
"... rarely pass Punishment of without a murder of some master by his female the
stake: . , , - ii • r 1 traitresses at servant, or of a husband by his wife. ..."
2. Danton and Other Verse by Augustus Henry Beesly (1896)
"I am no friend of traitresses, Death to them all! but, now the law is strong, 'Tis
ye that break it that are traitresses, And that for which ye blame me is ..."
3. The Cloister and the Hearth: Or, Maid, Wife, and Widow; a Matter-of-fact Romance by Charles Reade (1861)
"They have ta'en my purse and fifteen golden pieces : raise the hue and cry 1 ah
I traitresses 1 vipers 1 These inns are all guet-apens. ..."
4. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1859)
"But of all intriguers of the gentler sex—of all traitresses in love, friendship,
and politics —who could compare with the soft, quiet, innocent-looking ..."
5. Beethoven's Letters: A Critical Edition : with Explanatory Notes by Ludwig van Beethoven, Alfred Christlieb Kalischer, John South Shedlock (1909)
"Now connect the dates previously given you about the servants with this, and you
have the whole shameful history of both traitresses clear. ..."
6. History of Friedrich II, of Prussia: Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1900)
"1730 can keep away traitresses, female spies that are prowling about; especially
one ' Ramen,' a Queen's soubrette, who gets trusted with everything, ..."
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