[f. TRANSLATOR + -ESS.] A female translator.
1638. Chillingw., Relig. Prot., I. ii. § 91. 85. Which Card. Perron and his Translatresse so often translate false.
1702. P[rio]r, Satyr on Mod. Translators, in Poems on State Affairs, 196.
That he may know what Roman Authors mean, | |
No more than does our blind Translatress Behn. |
1759. Dilworth, Pope, 76. By the French translatress Madam Dacier.
1865. Even. Standard, 4 Feb. The celebrated French translatress of Darwins work on the Origin of Species.