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  • noun Plural form of editrix.

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Examples

  • Mary McCarthy analyzed Vogue with humorless bite, and Gay Talese, who described its editrixes as “a group of suave and wrinkle-proof women … who can speak in italics and curse in French,” sketched it with uncharacteristic smugness.

    “Show the Dress” 2007

  • Mary McCarthy analyzed Vogue with humorless bite, and Gay Talese, who described its editrixes as “a group of suave and wrinkle-proof women … who can speak in italics and curse in French,” sketched it with uncharacteristic smugness.

    “Show the Dress” 2007

  • Mary McCarthy analyzed Vogue with humorless bite, and Gay Talese, who described its editrixes as “a group of suave and wrinkle-proof women … who can speak in italics and curse in French,” sketched it with uncharacteristic smugness.

    “Show the Dress” 2007

  • Mary McCarthy analyzed Vogue with humorless bite, and Gay Talese, who described its editrixes as “a group of suave and wrinkle-proof women … who can speak in italics and curse in French,” sketched it with uncharacteristic smugness.

    “Show the Dress” 2007

  • I watched as waifish editrixes stood with their champagne flutes at half mast, their eyes glazed over with a look that suggested one part dismay, one part blasé, in what I assumed was a contest to see who could strike a more "over it all" pose.

    Martin Marks: Under the Big Top 2009

  • Knowing Time Out's hipster editors and editrixes, they probably got bored of Manhattan and the usual choices for best burger, and thought it would be cool to make a brief foray into uncool Queens.

    Burger King Brooks of Sheffield 2006

  • Knowing Time Out's hipster editors and editrixes, they probably got bored of Manhattan and the usual choices for best burger, and thought it would be cool to make a brief foray into uncool Queens.

    Archive 2006-06-01 Brooks of Sheffield 2006

  • I took the famous Condé Nast elevators and prepared myself for the infamous elevator stare-down between competing editrixes, but only found myself next to a slovenly maintenance man.

    cat’s meow melissa de la cruz 2001

  • I took the famous Condé Nast elevators and prepared myself for the infamous elevator stare-down between competing editrixes, but only found myself next to a slovenly maintenance man.

    cat’s meow melissa de la cruz 2001

  • I took the famous Condé Nast elevators and prepared myself for the infamous elevator stare-down between competing editrixes, but only found myself next to a slovenly maintenance man.

    cat’s meow melissa de la cruz 2001

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