Noun
A woman who commits murder.
Source: Webster's dictionaryMurderess is a strong word to have attached to you. It has a smell to it, that word - musky and oppressive, like dead flowers in a vase. Sometimes at night I whisper it over to myself:. It rustles, like a taffeta skirt across the floor. Margaret Atwood
In Double Indemnity, Stanwyck brought out the cruel nature of the "grim, unflinching murderess," marking her as the "most notorious femme" in the film noir genre. Source: Internet
The dark woman—Brett Ashley of The Sun Also Rises —is a goddess; the light woman—Margot Macomber of " The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber "—is a murderess. Source: Internet
By the novel's end she has become an adulteress and is suspected of being a murderess. Source: Internet
In the first, he "rescued" an accused murderess, Harriet Vane, she stood accused of poisoning her former lover. Source: Internet
Multiple murderess Rachel Solando is loose somewhere on Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane, and U.S. Marhsal Teddy Daniels and Chuck Aule are on the case. Source: Internet