Marineress

Quick meaning: Marineress is a noun meaning (dated) A female mariner.

Meaning

(dated) A female mariner.

Example Sentences

Then out Lafayette street, until the last of the hardy marineresses left the slow but safe craft.

But, of course, the crew of the Hot Cross Bun are nothing to the marineress whose sex has only just been discovered.

About nine, however, the good woman came on deck, intending to take a look at the weather, like a skilful marineress as she was, before she turned in.

Shortly they came in sight of a sailor’s house constructed of reeds and rushes and ‘uncommonly artfully covered with a huge net; inside of which house a number of mariners and marineresses were dancing their rustic (!) dances.’

Word Forms

• marineresses

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include sailoress, millineress, sailorwoman, milleress, warderess, merchantess.

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