Meaning of compositress | Babel Free

Definitions

Female equivalent of compositor.

dated, feminine, form-of

Examples

“Now beſides Sappho, we read of many others of that Sex famous for Learning, as Demophila the Pamphylian’s Wife whom Apollonius here mentions; Proba the Roman Conſul’s Wife, who (A. D. 424.) wrote in Heroick Verſe the Contents of the Old and New Teſtament, ſo far as the deſcending of the Holy Ghoſt; Corinna, who was Ovid’s Beloved; Elpia, the Wife of Boetius; Polla, Wife to Lucan the Poet, who often help’d her Husband in the compoſure of his Pharſalia; Lesbia, Miſtreſs to Catullus; Cornificia, the Roman Poeteſs; Thesbia, the Compoſitreſs of Epigrams; and the other famous Poeteſs Corinna, who five times vanquiſh’d Pindar in the Poetical Art, wherein he had challenged her to contend in the City of Thebes; neither muſt we here omit the late ingenious Mrs. Phillips, our Engliſh Sappho.”

“But if you want to hear the song free gratis, (perhaps you have never heard it!) call around at our office any day, at nearly any hour, and you can be accommodated. And it will be given in pretty good style, too, with piano accompaniment. Don’t imagine, for a moment, that we will sing it for you, or allow any of our compositresses to. Oh, no; we couldn’t stand it so near as that; but mellowed down by the width of the street, we manage to endure it.”

“the pay of women in the government printing office is not excessive. The millionairesses among the female sex in that institution are to be found among the “compositresses,” for none of them make less than the regular men’s wages—$3.20 per diem—and some of them make a good deal more.”

“Miss [Ada C.] Malone was formerly an employess of the Mirror as compositress and was the champion type-setteress of the office.”

“The rig representing the Papilllon^([sic]) Times, which was decorated in white and trimmed in red was also in line, Miss Elsie Durkop, one of the compositresses in the Times office, making herself very popular by distributing neat Japanese fans during the parade.”

“Miss Dora Hunter, a compositress in The Gazette office, is passing a two-weeks vacation with relatives and friends in Fairfield and Highgate.”

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