Definition of "arbitress" [ar•bi•tress]

• A female arbiter. (noun)

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• "I supposed it concerned me, more than any other, to be the arbitress of the quarrels of unruly spirits. —"
• "Beauty arbitress Linda Wells (with touch-ups by her Allure editors) shares the Confessions of a Beauty Editor (Bulfinch)."
• "It was clear that she had been a very desirable and distinguished figure, the mistress of her little section of the world; but more than that, she was the person of all others who seemed to him the arbitress of life, the woman whose judgment was naturally right and steady, as his had never been in spite of all his culture."