"shipmistress" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From ship + mistress.",
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          "ref": "1890 May 10, Seafaring, volume 4, number 81, page 14, column 3",
          "text": "Women nowadays invade all professions. The other day we announced the death of a lady shipmaster—or shipmistress.",
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        {
          "ref": "1969, Poul Anderson, Beyond the Beyond, Signet Books, page 93",
          "text": "“In whole truth, Shipmistress,” Dagla added, “I don’t believe Morruchan wants your help.[…]”",
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        {
          "ref": "1983, Nigel Tranter, Lord of the Isles, Coronet Books, published 1994, page 222",
          "text": "Time will aid us too, impatient one. You will see. For there is much to be resolved, beyond tonight, is there not? What of your shipmistress? The fair Cathula?",
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        {
          "ref": "1996, Robert Jordan, A Crown of Swords (The Wheel of Time; book seven), Orbit, page 248",
          "text": "The Light illumine you and your vessels, Shipmistress, and send the winds to speed you all.",
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        {
          "ref": "2005, Juliet E. McKenna, Western Shore, Orbit, page 188",
          "text": "I wouldn’t want to be caught in these winds without a shipload of strong oarsmen to fight our way back. I hope our shipmistress knows what she’s doing.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Isobelle Carmody, The Stone Key, New York, N.Y.: Random House, page 319",
          "text": "He has gone to fetch our good shipmistress, but he says to begin the discussion without him.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Nick Kyme, Deathfire: Into the Ruinstorm, Black Library, page 45",
          "text": "The Demagogue was a much smaller ship than the Dark Sacrament, a destroyer-class vessel with fewer crew. It could have easily been missed; Inviglio still had no idea how the shipmistress aboard the Defiance of Calth had found it.",
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        {
          "ref": "2014, Karen Traviss, Halo: Mortal Dictata, New York, N.Y.: Tor Books, page 167",
          "text": "One of the shipmistresses was making notes on a data module or tallying a price.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2017, L J Goulding, Scythes of the Emperor, Black Library, page 181",
          "text": "Reports would later be made that the shipmistress drew her sidearm and shot herself in front of the oculus and her bridge crew.",
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        "A female shipmaster."
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  "etymology_text": "From ship + mistress.",
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        {
          "ref": "1890 May 10, Seafaring, volume 4, number 81, page 14, column 3",
          "text": "Women nowadays invade all professions. The other day we announced the death of a lady shipmaster—or shipmistress.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1969, Poul Anderson, Beyond the Beyond, Signet Books, page 93",
          "text": "“In whole truth, Shipmistress,” Dagla added, “I don’t believe Morruchan wants your help.[…]”",
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          "ref": "1983, Nigel Tranter, Lord of the Isles, Coronet Books, published 1994, page 222",
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          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1996, Robert Jordan, A Crown of Swords (The Wheel of Time; book seven), Orbit, page 248",
          "text": "The Light illumine you and your vessels, Shipmistress, and send the winds to speed you all.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, Juliet E. McKenna, Western Shore, Orbit, page 188",
          "text": "I wouldn’t want to be caught in these winds without a shipload of strong oarsmen to fight our way back. I hope our shipmistress knows what she’s doing.",
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        },
        {
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          "text": "He has gone to fetch our good shipmistress, but he says to begin the discussion without him.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
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          "text": "The Demagogue was a much smaller ship than the Dark Sacrament, a destroyer-class vessel with fewer crew. It could have easily been missed; Inviglio still had no idea how the shipmistress aboard the Defiance of Calth had found it.",
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        },
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        },
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          "text": "Reports would later be made that the shipmistress drew her sidearm and shot herself in front of the oculus and her bridge crew.",
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        }
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