interpretess
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From interpreter + -ess.
Noun
[edit]interpretess (plural interpretesses)
- (dated) A female interpreter.
- 1724, Lady Mary Wortley Montague, Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M--y W--y M--e[1]:
- However, I chose to go incognito, to avoid any disputes about ceremony, and went in a Turkish coach, only attended by my woman, that held up my train, and the Greek lady, who was my interpretess.
- 1920, Edith Wharton, In Morocco[2]:
- They were all (our interpretess whispered) the Sultan's "favourites," round-faced apricot-tinted girls in their teens, with high cheek-bones, full red lips, surprised brown eyes between curved-up Asiatic lids, and little brown hands fluttering out like birds from their brocaded sleeves.