conductrix

plural conductrices

1. uncommonA female conductor; a woman who conducts.

   Oberlin recruited teachers — whom he called “conductrices” — to sit among small groups of children and encourage language interaction through storytelling and start-up points for art and small construction projects, while the conductrices completed their knitting.

   1999, Harry Morgan, The Imagination of Early Childhood Education, Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 21

   Synonyms: conductress