litteratrice

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From French littératrice or from Latin litteratrix.

Noun[edit]

litteratrice (plural litteratrices, masculine litterateur)

  1. female equivalent of litterateur (literary writer)
    Synonym: litterateuse
    • 2011, Martin Hipsky, Modernism and the Women’s Popular Romance in Britain, 1885–1925[1]:
      "She became a flamboyant litteratrice and celebrated controversialist, turning out both fantastic narratives and, through the thinly veiled mouthpieces who were her protagonists, streams of opinion on the urgent social issues of the moment."

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