Meanings
plural superintendentesses
- a female superintendent.
I was introduced to a superintendentess, if you will, and taken through the mill.
1921, Sweater News: The Journal of the Sweater and Fancy Knit Goods Trade, page 1272 more examples
At the first word she raised her to the functions of superintendentess of her household, breaking by violence, in order to bring her nearer to herself, all the rights. and disregarding the murmurs, of persons more anciently belonging to the court.
1854, Littell's Living Age, page 286The superintendentess' excuse was that lately there had been only one or two of us coming, sometimes none.
1977, William R. Roalfe, John Henry Wigmore: scholar and reformer, Northwestern Univ Pr
Origin
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