rectoress

English

Alternative forms

rectress

Etymology

rector +‎ -ess

Noun

rectoress (plural rectoresses)

A governess; a rectrix.
- 1596, Michael Drayton, Mortimeriados:
  
  So can she rule the greatness of her mind, As a most perfect rectoress of her will
The wife of a rector.
- 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, OCLC 3174108:
  In this way the worthy Rectoress consoled herself : and her daughters sighed , and sate over the Peerage all night

References

rectoress in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Anagrams

crosstree, retrocess, secretors

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