chantress
English
Noun
chantress (plural chantresses)
- A female singer or chanter.
- Milton
- Thee, chantress, oft the woods among / I woo, to hear thy even song.
- 2010, Eileen Power, Medieval English Nunneries: C.1275 to 1535, page 567:
- On this occasion the abbess' kitchen had to provide each lady of the convent with half a goose, the two chantresses, as well as the four usual recipients, receiving doubles, and with a hen or a cock, the fratresses and the subprioress also receiving doubles.
- Milton
Synonyms
- chanteuse
Anagrams
- snatchers, stanchers