What is "paintresses"

Usage examples of "paintresses".

The paintresses have a reputation for beauty, and they've no lack of suitors— He laughed, but there was no humor in the laugh.

If the other workers wondered about this special privi­lege, they never said anything, perhaps because the paintresses were given the grand title of Porcelain Artist and got other privi­leges as well.

Men look­ing for pretty mistresses may go looking among the paintresses, you mean?

Ellen's second-cousin is the only person that has ever brought one of these paintresses to the attention of a doctor, and that is in no small part because the cousin discovered Ellen's magical potential was being drained away from her by a person unknown.

Actually, Andrew, that's not quite true—Madam and Reggie were discussing something about a fe­male doctor, a suffragist, who was campaigning on behalf of the paintresses at one of her potteries.