bandmistress

English

Etymology

From band +‎ mistress.

Noun

bandmistress (plural bandmistresses)

  1. The conductor, leader, or musical director of a band.
    • 1877, Charles Fuge Lowder, Twenty-one Years in S. George's Mission, An Account of Its Origin, Progress, and Works of Charity, page 57:
      One of the Sisters is Superior, and she is assisted in the government by bandmistresses chosen from among the elder members, whose duty it is to watch lovingly and carefully over the members of their bands.
    • 1903, Haggerston S. Saviour's Priory, Memories of a Sister of S. Saviour's Priory, page 338:
      One is constantly seeing advertisements of missing bags, and purses, and lockets, and jewellery, dogs, and sometimes children, but never a lost bandmistress!
    • 1985, Arthur Crew Inman, The Inman Diary, A Public and Private Confession · Volumes 1-2, page 422:
      Past us marched a female band in white, a female bandmistress at the fore.
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