Definition of "paintress" []

• A female painter (noun)

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• "Doesn't it occur to those people that it takes time to train a paintress?"
• "-- There is them that's glad enough to go to the Museum, when tickets is given 'em; but some of 'em ha'n't had a ticket sence Cenderilla was played, -- and now he must be offerin ''em to this ridiculous young paintress, or whatever she is, that's come to make more mischief than her board's worth."
• "He had met two talented ladies at the dinner, one was a sculptress from Mr. Samuel Merwin's Washington Square and the other was a paintress from Mr. Owen Johnson's Lincoln Square."