nonce-wd. [f. CONTRIBUTOR + -ESS.] A female (literary) contributor.
1880. Indianapolis Leader, 28 March, 1/5. The fashion contributor—‘hegscuse me, hegscuse me, hegscuse me if you please’—we mean contributress of Our Age, is ‘Ritchie Good.’
1889. Illust. Lond. News, 9 March, 290/2. The rejected contributress exists there.
