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tutoress

[too-ter-is, tyoo-] / ˈtu tər ɪs, ˈtju- /
NOUN
governess
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Pa and Ma and Allie Briskow and the tutoress have gone to the mountains—Ma's beloved mountains—and they appear to be living up to her expectations.

From Flowing Gold by Rex Ellingwood Beach

Phoebe, my kind tutoress Phoebe, was at the time gone out, perhaps in search of me, or their cooked-up story had not, it is probable, passed smoothly.

From Memoirs Of Fanny Hill A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, 1749) by John Cleland

She, our famed tutoress, with kind endeavour, Bound us from that day forth with heart and hand, When met fair Elgga's tribes, that we should never In hostile ranks before each other stand.

From Poems by Denis Florence MacCarthy

The Ultonians appointed for her a nurse and tutoress named Levarcam.

From The Coming of Cuculain by Standish O'Grady

Therefore is it that Pallas, the goddess of wisdom, tutoress and guardianess of such as are diligently studious and painfully industrious, is and hath been still accounted a virgin.

From Aphrodisiacs and Anti-aphrodisiacs: Three Essays on the Powers of Reproduction by John Davenport




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