• hunteress(obsolete)

A variant ofhunteress, fromMiddle Englishhunteras,hunteres,hunteresse, equivalent tohunter +‎-ess, possibly on the model of the likes ofmistress.

• IPA^(key):/ˈhʌntɹɪs/

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huntress (pluralhuntresses)

1. (literary) A femalehunter.
   • 1590,Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto V”, inThe Faerie Queene. […], London:[…] [John Wolfe] forWilliam Ponsonbie,→OCLC:

     In those same woods ye well remember may / How that a noblehunteress did wonne [...].

   • 2014, William Kremer, “A 13-year-old eagle huntress in Mongolia”, inBBC World Service:

     Ashol-Pan, the daughter of a particularly celebrated hunter, may well be the country's only apprenticehuntress.

   • 2017,BioWare,Mass Effect: Andromeda, Redwood City: Electronic Arts,→OCLC, PC, scene: Reminder:

     Grief and fear cannot rule you;
     let them be your faithful servants, protective of their mistress.
     Loss serves ahuntress like fuel serves fire.

• reshunts,shunters