illustratress
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From illustrator + -ess.
Noun
[edit]illustratress (plural illustratresses)
- (rare) A female illustrator.
- 1958, New York Botanical Garden, Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden, volume 10, page 169:
- The specific epithet commemorates my botanical illustratress.
- 1971, Maxwell Struthers Burt, The Delectable Mountains, page 84:
- ...a younger authoress whose blond stern good looks concealed a heart equally stern and who was said sternly to support a worthless husband whom she sternly adored; and an illustrator, or rather illustratress, for it was a lady, whose cover designs of babies in every sort of snarled discomfort were the delight of editors who went home and were cross to their own children.