donoress

plural donoresses

1. A female donor.

   If sometimes, in private, he grimaced over “the egg,” his manner to the donors and donoresses was all tactful thanks.

   1924, The Adelphi, volume 2, number 4, page 295

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   The venerable recipient of the medal was so touched by the expressions of the fair donoresses, that he immediately suspended it from his neck, with a garter presented to him by the young lady in spangles who dances the Scotchische, after which they all supped together, and had a very merry evening of it until late on the following afternoon.

   1862 March 1, Vanity Fair, volume 5, page 104, column 1

   It is remarkable that a lay-worshipper like the present donoress should have been enabled to obtain such bodily relics and further to erect such a Stupa over it, though there is no denying that she belonged by birth to the family of a rich merchant.

   1977, The Journal of Academy of Indian Numismatics & Sigillography, page 6

   In spite of the length of the poem (26 verses), it is preferable to classify it as an inscription, and that because of its contents: The donoress prays for the recovery of her husband who suffers from high fever and for a good development of her own pregnancy.

   1987, Byzantinische Forschungen, page 243

   The four donoresses in the lower area are dressed in robes of identical cut, which, however, were sewn from textiles with different patterns.

   2005, Nazan Olcer, Turks: A Journey of a Thousand Years, 600-1600, →ISBN, page 378

   Synonyms: donatress, donatrix