authouress

== English == === Etymology === From authour +‎ -ess. === Noun === authouress (plural authouresses) Obsolete form of authoress. 1753, Samuel Johnson quoted in Life of Samuel Johnson, page #201: The part which depends on the imagination is very well supplied, as you will find when you read the paper ; for descriptions of life, there is now a treaty almost made with an authour and an authouress ; and the province of criticism and literature they are very desirous to assign to the commentator on Virgil.