professoress

From professor +‎ -ess.

professoress (plural professoresses)

1. (archaic) A female professor.
   • 1850 September, Charles Kingsley, “Tennyson”, in Sir Walter Raleigh and His Time, with Other Papers, author’s edition, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, published 1859, →OCLC, page 187:

     At the end of the first cantos, fresh from the description of the female college, with its professoresses, and hostleresses, and other Utopian monsters

• professorine (rare, dated)