1
: a woman authorized to perform the sacred rites of a religion
2
: a woman regarded as a leader (as of a movement)
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Archaeologists found human-hair wigs in tombs of priestesses and kohl kits for eyeliner in Nefertiti’s tomb.
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Sabina Wex, Glamour, 17 June 2024
By the end of the day, attendees had gathered around the fire pit for a ritual led by Voodoo priestess Lilith Dorsey.
—Shahrzad Rasekh, Hartford Courant, 26 Feb. 2024
In another of the room’s works, an ancient artist has reimagined the Greek god Apollo trying to seduce the Trojan priestess Cassandra.
—Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Apr. 2024
The cult’s creaking, wooden church, run by a pregnant priestess, is filled with paintings implied to be premonitions, and Weaving’s character ends up imbued with some sort of supernatural ability to glimpse future events herself.
—Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 20 Mar. 2024
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Sabina Wex, Glamour, 17 June 2024
By the end of the day, attendees had gathered around the fire pit for a ritual led by Voodoo priestess Lilith Dorsey.
—Shahrzad Rasekh, Hartford Courant, 26 Feb. 2024
In another of the room’s works, an ancient artist has reimagined the Greek god Apollo trying to seduce the Trojan priestess Cassandra.
—Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Apr. 2024
The cult’s creaking, wooden church, run by a pregnant priestess, is filled with paintings implied to be premonitions, and Weaving’s character ends up imbued with some sort of supernatural ability to glimpse future events herself.
—Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 20 Mar. 2024
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priestess
noun
priest·ess
ˈprē-stəs 
: a woman who is a priest
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