professoress

plural professoresses

1. archaicA female professor.

   At the end of the first cantos, fresh from the description of the female college, with its professoresses, and hostleresses, and other Utopian monsters

   1850 September, Charles Kingsley, “Tennyson”, in Sir Walter Raleigh and His Time, with Other Papers, author’s edition, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, published 1859, →OCLC, page 187

   Synonyms: professorine, profestrix