senatrix
Noun

senatrix (plural senatrices)

  1. (rare) A female senator (a female member of a senate)
    • 2014, Miles Franklin, Some Everyday Folk and Dawn:
      The Federal elections, for which women were entitled to stand as senatorial candidates, had come previously, though old prejudice had been too strong to the extent of many votes to grasp that a woman might really be a senatrix, and that a vote cast for her would not be wasted, still one woman candidate had polled 51,597 votes […]
  2. (rare) Traditionally used as a term of address for a female senator in parliamentary proceedings in some Senates like those of the United States, Canada and France .
    • 1934, U.S. Government Publishing Office, Congressional Record-Senate:
      Mrs. CARAWAY of Arkansas. Mr. President, will the distinguished gentleman from Pennsylvania yield to a few questions?
      Mr. REED of Pennsylvania. I yield to the Senatrix from Arkansas.
  3. (rare, dated) The wife of a senator.
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