Meaning of telecastress | Babel Free

Definitions

A female television broadcaster.

dated, rare

Examples

“Toni Holt, Hollywood gossip telecastress, reported on Channel 8’s 1 o’clock news recently that Cosmopolitan’s permissive-thinking editoress, Helen Gurley Brown, told her that she was planning to inaugurate the nude male centerfold in rebuttal to Playboy’s celebrated trademark of the nude lady.”

“Viola Drawdy wondered about Tampa Bay Surfs. Andrea Kirby, Sarasota’s sports telecastress, asked how about Tampa Bay Tans.”

“Sprawled out on the dugout bench, a picture of contentment, Danny Murtaugh sprayed a stream of tobacco juice onto the red gravel floor. “Putting on a little weight, aren’t you, young lady?” he remarked devilishly as a lissome telecastress, Patty Burns, wandered over to the group.”

“PRODUCER DAVID MERRICK recently sued a telecastress and her stations for several million $ for saying that big stars wouldn’t work for him . . .”

“TELECASTRESS: Welcome to News 7. I'm your host, Colleen Kurtz.”

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