photographeress

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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noun

"Miss Ring has become a crack amateur photographeress, and recently favored her Oberlin friends with some beautiful "snap shots" of French peasant women..."
""The photographeress?" "The woman photographer of your firm." "She's not here now. She's off taking pictures of Southern coastal trees.""
"As your charming photographeress cannot explain by word what she wishes..."

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *bʰéh₂os Proto-Hellenic *pʰáwos Ancient Greek φᾰ́ος (phắos) Ancient Greek φῶς (phôs) Ancient Greek φωτο- (phōto-)der. English photo- Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ- Proto-Hellenic *grə́pʰō Ancient Greek γράφω (gráphō) Ancient Greek -γρᾰ́φος (-grắphos)der. English -graph English photograph English -er English photographer Late Latin -issader. Old French -essebor. Middle English -esse English -ess English photographeress From photographer + -ess.

photographeresses (plural)

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What does photographeress mean?

A female photographer.

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