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单词 feastress
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feastressn.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation; modelled on a Greek lexical item. Etymons: feast v., -tress suffix.
Etymology: < feast v. + -tress suffix, translating ancient Greek Θεσμοφοριάζουσαι (plural), the title of a comedy by Aristophanes (compare Thesmophoric adj.).
Obsolete. rare.
A female celebrant in a ritual festival.In quot. translating the title of a play by Aristophanes.
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1837 B. D. Walsh in tr. Aristophanes Comedies I. 9 (note) We shall see afterwards from the plays of the Feastresses and the Frogs, how fond the bard of comedy was of ridiculing and parodying his tragic brother.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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