conductrix

From the Latin conductrix.

• IPA^(key): /kɒnˈdʌktɹɪks/

conductrix (plural conductrices)

1. (uncommon) A female conductor; a woman who conducts.
   • 1999, Harry Morgan, The Imagination of Early Childhood Education, Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 21:

     Oberlin recruited teachers — whom he called “conductrices” — to sit among small groups of children and encourage language interaction through storytelling and start-up points for art and small construction projects, while the conductrices completed their knitting.

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