Terms vs Shootress - What's the difference?
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A female shooter; a markswoman; an archeress.
*1600 , (Edward Fairfax), The (Jerusalem Delivered) of (w), XI, xli:
*:Her mighty bow Clorinda often drew, / And many a sharp and deadly arrow shot; // And from her bow no steeled shaft there flew, / But that some blood the cursed engine got, // Blood of some valiant knight or man of fame, / For that proud shootress scorned weaker game.