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Aviatrix

Aviatress \A"vi*a`tress\, Aviatrix \A`vi*a"trix\, n. A woman aviator (in senses 1 or 3).

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aviatrix

n. (context dated English) A female aviator.

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aviatrix

n. a woman aviator [syn: airwoman, aviatress]

Usage examples of "aviatrix".

Just ask Amelia Earhart, the famous woman aviatrix ("aviatrix" means "deceased person") who in 1937 attempted to fly around the world in a twin-engine Lockheed and disappeared somewhere in the South Pacific and was never heard from again.

Then she introduced me to the very good-looking Harriet Quimby, "who is an aviatrix!

And in the presence of a young and lovely "aviatrix who planned to climb into one of these crazy kites and fly out alone over the English Channel.

HITLER TO SKIP NEW YORK … President Roosevelt kept in Washington 'temporarily' by the press of business… Vice-President Garner has boarded a special train to Chicago… the city's Jewish population demonstrates… HOLLY STILL MISSING No trace has yet been found of the Lockheed Vega monoplane in which the young aviatrix disappeared.

The qualities which had made her one of England's outstanding aviatrixes were evident.

Look, I got over all this" -- he gestured to all that -- "and the fact that you're sixty-four years old and your mother is a famous dead aviatrix.

The aviatrix within her took charge once again and she picked up the bolts and tools and climbed back up onto the scaffolding.

As though Amelia Earhart, the long-lost aviatrix, had reached out of her twilight zone and snared the two bits, no tumbling coin glinted in the air above the desk.