doctress noun. ['dɒktrɪs] Also doctoress ['dɒkt(ǝ)rɪs, -ɛs]. M16.
[from DOCTOR noun + -ESS¹, after French doctoresse.]
1. A female teacher; a learned woman; a female holder of a doctor's degree. Now rare or obsolete. M16.

2. A female medical doctor, a lady doctor. L16.

3. A doctor's wife or daughter. joc. M18.

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