suggestress

English

Etymology

suggester +‎ -ess

Noun

suggestress (plural suggestresses)

1. (rare) A woman who suggests.
   • 1845, Thomas De Quincey, Suspiria de Profundis: Being a Sequel to the Confessions of an English Opium-eater:

     the suggestress of suicides

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “suggestress”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)