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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a headmistress" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a female head of a school, particularly in British English.
Example: "The headmistress addressed the students during the morning assembly."
Alternatives: "a school principal" or "a female head of school".
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His mother was a headmistress and his father a psychologist.
"Nobody loves to be a headmistress more than me," she said.
Consider for starters Miss Trunchbull that armor-plated harridan of a headmistress in "Matilda".
"To feel this way about your father is not natural or desirable," a headmistress tells her.
My dad's sister was a headmistress and had actually taught my mother.
She remembers an upsetting incident when a headmistress chastised her for working too much.
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Indeed, it was only when detectives were looking into the mysterious demise less than 18 months later of his neighbour, a former headmistress at a Catholic school, that a murder investigation was launched.
Sheila Hancock was the lead in a play called Prin playing the character of a domineering headmistress of a girl's school.
But she possesses the gift of telekinesis and, just as important, a gift for language, both of which come in handy when she leads a revolution against a tyrannical headmistress.
The race for best musical will surely come down to "Kinky Boots" versus "Matilda," a London import based on the Roald Dahl novel about a girl battling a cruel headmistress (Bertie Carvel).
The bridegroom's mother is also an assistant headmistress and a teacher at St. Chrysostom's Day School, a preschool in Chicago.
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