architectress
(ˈɑːkɪtɛktrɪs)
[f. prec. + -ess: cf. director, directress.]
A female architect.
| 1601 Cornwallyes Ess. ii. xxxviii, This Architectresse shewes the first ground of Policy. 1651 Reliq. Wotton. (1672) 139 If Nature herself (the first Architectress) had..windowed your breast. 1860 H. Marryat Resid. Jutland I. v. 62 Queen Thyre Danebod, architectress of the Danevirke. |