chairmaness

Meanings

nounchairmaness (plural chairmanesses)

plural chairmanesses

datedSynonym of chairwoman.
We intimated as much to a lady friend, who was chairmaness of the tasting committee.
1875 November 5, The Tarborough Southerner, volume 53, number 44, Tarboro, N.C.
5 more examples
He did not wish to introduce the names of ladies into the debate, but could not help remarking that in The Times of Saturday last, there appeared an advertisement of a society to collect funds to be remitted to General Garibaldi, of which society the Countess of Shaftesbury was Chairmaness—[A Laugh]—and in the list of contributions which followed the first name was that of Lady Palmerston, and the second that of Mrs. Gladstone.
1860 August 16, Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates. […], volumes CLX […], London: […] Cornelius Buck, […], page 1374
“Miss Chairmaness, as there is quite a stock of clothing on hand, allow me to ask if the committee to distribute should not be appointed?”
1861 May 15, “Cousin Carrie”, “The Little Girls’ Sewing Bee”, in The Advocate and Family Guardian. A Semi-Monthly Periodical. The Organ of the American Female Guardian Society, Home for the Friendless and Home Industrial Schools., volume XXVII, number 10 (whole 622), New York, N.Y.: American Female Guardian Society, […], page 155, column 1
The venerable Lucretia Mott, who was its Chairmaness declared that it had fulfilled its mission, that it “had seen the salvation of the Lord,” and like the aged “Simeon” was ready to depart.
1870 March 31, “Not yet out of the Wood Pile”, in Daily Davenport Democrat, Davenport, Iowa, column 1
Mrs. Caldwell, chairmaness of the Arkansas Woman’s Centennial Executive Committee, has issued an address calling upon the women of the State to go to work heartily for the Philadelphia exhibition.
1875 August 20, “News in Brief”, in Public Press, volume III, number 43, Northumberland, Pa.
Mr. G. Merritt moved thanks to the “Chairmaness,” and quality of tone which it would be quite right for a heavy the meeting closed with applause.
1901, The Musical Herald and Tonic Sol-fa Reporter, page 40, column 1
Synonyms: chairwoman