Spectatress

Related to Spectatress: fallacious, iniquity

Spec`ta´tress


n.1.A female beholder or looker-on.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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Of all these little incidents, Dot was the amused and open-eyed spectatress from her chair in the cart; and as she sat there, looking on--a charming little portrait framed to admiration by the tilt--there was no lack of nudgings and glancings and whisperings and envyings among the younger men.
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Chapter 4 ('The "Spectatress": Satire and the Aristocrats') exemplifies the book's one major weakness.
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and the Eighteenth-Century Familiar Letter
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