suggestress

English

Etymology

From suggester +‎ -ess.

Noun

suggestress (plural suggestresses)

1. (rare) A woman who suggests.
   • 1845, Thomas De Quincey, Suspiria de Profundis: Being a Sequel to the Confessions of an English Opium-eater:

     the suggestress of suicides

References

• “suggestress”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.