captress

captress

English

Etymology

captor +‎ -ess

Noun

captress (plural captresses)

1. a female captor.
   • 1867, Public Opinion, page 217:

     At least the captress gets, or thinks she has got, what she wants.

   • 1944, Clark Ashton Smith, Lost Worlds, U of Nebraska Press (→ISBN), page 261:

     Murmurs of expectation, like the purrings of hungry flame, arose from the nearest, who hoped to share in the good fortune of the sorcerer's captress.

   • 2014, The Mahabharata, Volume 2: Book 2: The Book of Assembly; Book 3: The Book of the Forest, University of Chicago Press (→ISBN), page 192:

     Where did the notion that its captress should be a virgin come from? Again, this was likely to be an Indian trait.