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Meaning of bandmistress | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1

Definitions

The conductor, leader, or musical director of a band.

Examples

One of the Sisters is Superior, and she is assisted in the government by bandmistresses chosen from among the elder members, whose duty it is to watch lovingly and carefully over the members of their bands.”
One is constantly seeing advertisements of missing bags, and purses, and lockets, and jewellery, dogs, and sometimes children, but never a lost bandmistress!”
Past us marched a female band in white, a female bandmistress at the fore.”

CEFR level

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This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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