proprietrix

[ pruh-prahy-i-triks ]

noun

1. proprietress.

Gender Note

See -trix.

Word History and Origins

Origin of proprietrix¹

First recorded in 1830–40; proprie(tor) + -trix

Example Sentences

When Cobbett simply referred to it only ten years ago, the noble proprietrix was startled, as if a rather delicate family secret was on the eve of being divulged; and yet nothing seems more evident now than that civilised man all over the world is to be made aware of how the experiment was accomplished, and what it is ultimately to produce.

From Project Gutenberg

The boat returned next morning, and brought intelligence that no vessel was then at that island, but that Doña Beatrix de Bobadilla, the proprietrix of the island, was then at Gran Canaria in a hired vessel of forty tons belonging to one Gradeuna of Seville, which would probably suit his purpose and might perhaps be got.

From Project Gutenberg