[f. TRANSLATOR + -ESS.] A female translator.

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1638.  Chillingw., Relig. Prot., I. ii. § 91. 85. Which Card. Perron and his Translatresse so often translate false.

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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.

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1759.  Dilworth, Pope, 76. By the French translatress Madam Dacier.

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1865.  Even. Standard, 4 Feb. The celebrated French translatress of Darwin’s work on the ‘Origin of Species.’

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