interpretess

English

Alternative forms

• interpretress

Etymology

From interpreter +‎ -ess.

Noun

interpretess (plural interpretesses)

1. (dated) A female interpreter.
   • 1724, Lady Mary Wortley Montague, Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M--y W--y M--e‎:

     However, I chose to go incognito, to avoid any disputes about ceremony, and went in a Turkish coach, only attended by my woman, that held up my train, and the Greek lady, who was my interpretess.

   • 1920, Edith Wharton, In Morocco‎:

     They were all (our interpretess whispered) the Sultan's "favourites," round-faced apricot-tinted girls in their teens, with high cheek-bones, full red lips, surprised brown eyes between curved-up Asiatic lids, and little brown hands fluttering out like birds from their brocaded sleeves.

Anagrams

• preteritness