单词 | progenitress |
释义 | progenitress|prəʊˈdʒɛnɪtrɪs| [f. progenitor + -ess1.] A female progenitor, an ancestress. Also fig.
1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. xvi. §34 Her selfe a Queene, and a Progenitresse of those glorious Kings and Queenes which followed. 1635Heywood Hierarch. vi. 343 Eue our first progenitresse. 1883Century Mag. XXVI. 291 She was a worthy progenitress of a long line of most charming women novelists. 1888Sat. Rev. 20 Oct. 463/1 These old cookery-books seem to bring us much nearer to our dead and gone progenitresses. |

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