traitress

[ trey-tris ]

noun

1. a woman who is a traitor.

Word History and Origins

Origin of traitress¹

1400–50; late Middle English traitresse < Old French; traitor, -ess

Example Sentences

The soldiers followed the horse for some distance into the desert to prevent its returning, and thus perished the beautiful traitress of Kerman.

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One day he came a changed, and moody man, and threw himself into a chair, crying "Ah, traitress! traitress!"

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Do you deny that your daughter is a traitress?

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Seize that bold traitress!—stop her hated croak!

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"If," said George, gazing sternly at his traitress, "you do not go now, of your own will, I must drive you, man though I am, violently from the garden."

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