The Collaborative International Dictionary
Monitress \Mon"i*tress\, Monitrix \Mon"i*trix\, n. A female monitor.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context now rare English) A female mentor or advisor; a female observer. 2 (cx dated English) A female monitor, or school leader.
Usage examples of "monitress".
Job Caudle was left in this briary world without his daily guide and nocturnal monitress, he was in the ripe fulness of fifty-seven.
I have sometimes wondered whether the obviously scandalised gesture of the Lady Principal might not be directed at these Cupids, rather than at anything the monitress may have been reading, for she would surely find them disquieting.
Oh he was princely indeed: that came out more and more with every word he said and with the particular way he said it, and Maisie could feel his monitress stiffen almost with anguish against the increase of his spell and then hurl herself as a desperate defence from it into the quite confessed poorness of violence, of iteration.
Pierre, having made up his mind to obey his monitress implicitly, moved toward the sofa she had indicated.
He looked inquiringly at his monitress and saw that she was again going on tiptoe to the reception room where they had left Prince Vasili and the eldest princess.
Casimir was somewhat the junior, yet he looked the elder, while the lady, accustomed to greater independence, took the lead in their intercourse, and acted the monitress to her docile scholar.
Best looked at her reproachfully, and Doreen, who was monitress for the month, took a notebook from her pocket and made an entry therein.
Outside the village and just beyond the school-house, in a little cottage whose diamond windows are almost hidden under green creepers, lived Alice Moylan, the head monitress in our little school.
Jane was seriously affected by this unstinted praise, and she was almost overwhelmed when her monitress showed the courage of her convictions by offering a place in her box.