interlocutress
(-ˈlɒkjuːtrɪs)
[f. interlocutor1 + -ess.]
A female interlocutor.
| 1858 Hogg Shelley II. 328, I..asked..the fair interlocutresses for some samples of the nightly dialogue. 1880 H. James Mme. de Mauves 105 Longmore felt a revival of interest in his interlocutress. |
So interˈlocutrice, interˈlocutrix, repr. the French and Latin forms of the feminine.
| 1848 C. Brontë J. Eyre xiv, Have the goodness to serve her as auditress and interlocutrice. 1860 Mrs. W. P. Byrne Undercurrents I. 27 The man moved from the wall towards his interlocutrix. 1868 Pall Mall G. 28 Mar. 11 His interlocutrix will not have Mrs. Guinevere for the brand-mark of the sex. 1892 Nation (N.Y.) 22 Dec. 481/1 ‘Would it not have been better’, suggested his interlocutrice. |