The Collaborative International Dictionary
Doctoress \Doc"tor*ess\, n. A female doctor.[R.]
Wiktionary
n. (context archaic English) A female doctor.
Usage examples of "doctoress".
He sends it on to you by the lips of your servant, the doctoress Nombe.
The doctoress appeared just as we had risen from breakfast, and Heda, turning round, came face to face with her.
I see that you were wise, for what right has a poor black doctoress to seek the love, or even to look upon the face of the great white lady whom for a little while Fate has caused to walk upon the same path with her?
Spirit, which must be an evil one since Zikali gave it me when I was made a doctoress, dealt truly with me, for presently the king and his people came.
At the kraal the king sent for me and questioned me in a dark hut, pretending to be alone, but I who am a doctoress knew that two other men were in that hut, taking note of all my words.
Bid them come swiftly if they would see the doctoress Nombe before she dies.
On the occasion of which I speak in the letter I remember that the doctoress soon discovered an article I thought was gone for ever.
Besides, an old Isanusi or witch doctoress up in the Manica country told me all about it.
There were dwarf doctors with white beards and humps, there were fairy doctoresses in shimmering silvery-blue robes and with glittering stars in their hair, there were water sprites with big round bellies and webbed hands and feet (sitz baths had been installed for them) .