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单词 inspectress
释义

inspectress

English

Etymology

inspector + -ess

Noun

inspectress (plural inspectresses)

  1. A female inspector.
    • 1859, George A. Lawrence, Sword and Gown:
      If, after due warning, our light-minded friends will write to us in terms that mislike that excellent and punctilious inspectress, they must aby it in the cold looks and bitter innuendoes which will be their portion when they come to us in the next hunting season.
    • 1906, George A. Birmingham, Hyacinth:
      They haven't made you an inspectress of boarded-out workhouse children, have they? or sent you down to improve the breed of hens?
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