[f. VOTER + -ESS.] A female voter.
1885. Evening Jrnl. (Minneapolis), 11 April. The ‘votress’ is not numerous in these parts.
1894. Daily Tel., 23 Nov., 5/4. The votress insisted that she must plump for ‘Annie Sinclair.’
1895. N. Amer. Rev., Sept., 267. Unable to conjecture what the results may be when women shall have become not only votresses but … alderwomen.
