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Doctress

Doctress \Doc"tress\, n. A female doctor. [R.]

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doctress

n. (context obsolete English) A female doctor.

Usage examples of "doctress".

Ransom turned away, not encouraged, and feeling that, no doubt, the little doctress had better go back to her office-slate.

He replied the doctress Nombe had done so and had brought him the horse saddled to carry them.

This doctor was an imposing man, possessed of handsome, pitch-black side-whiskers and of a fresh, robust doctress, ate fresh apples in the morning, and kept his mouth extraordinarily clean by rinsing it every morning for nearly three quarters of an hour and polishing his teeth with five different sorts of brushes.

One of the Annexes, as I have said, has had thoughts of becoming a doctress.

It was no longer a street solely devoted to the domestic gods, but had been invaded at more than one point by the bustling deities of business in such streets the irregular, inspired doctors and doctresses come first with inordinate door-plates, then a milliner filling the parlor window with new bonnets.