actresses

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"The worst were the conductresses, I have to say," Fear recalls.

From BBC • Aug. 26, 2013

On the other hand, to my eye the lift attendants on the tubes, the charming conductresses of the 'buses seem healthy, though their work has been done only recently by women.

From Women's Wild Oats Essays on the Re-fixing of Moral Standards by Hartley, C. Gasquoine (Catherine Gasquoine)

Under this growing dread of love’s allurements the Sabbath would have become quite dull and wearisome, had not the conductresses cleverly made the most of its comic side, enlivening it with farcical interludes.

From La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages by Michelet, Jules

He walked mechanically between his conductresses, his eyes fixed on the back of the sacrificial maiden who moved in front of him.

From Istar of Babylon A Phantasy by Potter, Margaret Horton

It was a day on which the conductors and conductresses were always ringing the bell three times.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, February 26, 1919 by Various