Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A female janitor; a janitress.
- noun The portal vein, or vena portæ, of the liver.
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- noun A female
janitor .
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Examples
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For her passkey supply to the janitrix, the mistress Kathe.
Finnegans Wake 2006
mollusque commented on the word janitrix
A surly janitrix (reminding me in mnemonic reverse of the Cerberean bitches in the hotels of Soviet Siberia which I was to stop at a couple of decades later) insisted on my writing down my name and address in a ledge . . .
--Vladimir Nabokov, 1974, Look at the Harlequins! p. 143
June 13, 2009