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conductress
[kuhn-duhk-tris]
noun
a woman who conducts; a female leader, guide, director, or manager.
a woman who is employed as a conductor on a bus, train, or other public conveyance.
Gender Note
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of conductress1
Example Sentences
During World War Two she moved to Glasgow to work as a conductress on the trams and survived the Clydebank blitz.
So the first words heard on BBC Two were from a story about a bus conductress who had been sacked for insulting Pakistani passengers, including the very phrase she had used.
"The worst were the conductresses, I have to say," Fear recalls.
When Holmes came in sight of them, his treacherous conductress pointed out that in which the sick woman lay.
From the r�fectoire we passed again into the corridor, where we made our adieus to our affable conductress.
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