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conductrix

conductrix

English

Noun

conductrix (plural conductrices)

  1. (uncommon) A female conductor; a woman who conducts.
    • 1999, Harry Morgan, The Imagination of Early Childhood Education, Greenwood Publishing Group, ISBN 0897895940, page 21:
      Oberlin recruited teachers — whom he called “conductrices” — to sit among small groups of children and encourage language interaction through storytelling and start-up points for art and small construction projects, while the conductrices completed their knitting.

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