Interpretess

Quick meaning: Interpretess is a noun meaning (dated) A female interpreter.

Meaning

(dated) A female interpreter.

Example Sentences

However, I chose to go incognito, to avoid any disputes about ceremony, and went in a Turkish coach, only attended by my woman, that held up my train, and the Greek lady, who was my interpretess.

They were all (our interpretess whispered) the Sultan's "favourites," round-faced apricot-tinted girls in their teens, with high cheek-bones, full red lips, surprised brown eyes between curved-up Asiatic lids, and little brown hands fluttering out like birds from their brocaded sleeves.

Word Forms

• interpretesses
• interpretress

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include interpretress, interpreter, interprater, interrogatress, interpretership, interlocutress.

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