"guildmistress" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From guild + mistress.",
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          "ref": "1858, Frances M. Wilbraham, For and Against or Queen Margaret’s Badge: A Domestic Chronicle of the Fifteenth Century, volume I, London: John W. Parker and Son […], page 204",
          "text": "‘How daintily is our Guildmistress appareled this day! Mark you the fair embroidery on her collar, and yon jewelled brooch she wears in it, as broad as the boss of a buckler!’",
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          "ref": "1984, Ian Watson, The Book of the River, London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, published 1985, page 138",
          "text": "Six weeks after I’d swum ashore, a full conclave of eight guildmistresses was held aboard a schooner out of Gate of the South; and I confessed in full all over again. This conclave spanned four full days. The guildmistresses were not so much sitting in judgement, but more as a tribunal of enquiry: to delve into all available facts about the other half of our world, facts which might cast a new light on what we thought of as the certainties of our existence.",
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          "ref": "2017, Zack Loran Clark, Nick Eliopulos, The Adventurers Guild, Los Angeles, Calif., New York, N.Y.: Disney • Hyperion, page 27",
          "text": "Alabasel Frond was the guildmistress of the Adventurers Guild, and he had thought that her nickname was whispered only among the town’s youths.",
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        "A female leader of a guild."
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