the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. A songstress.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. A female singer.
Word Usage
"(Jer.xxi. 13); ‘waileress’ (Jer.ix. 17); ‘cheseress’ (= electrix, Wisd.viii. 4); ‘singeress’, ‘breakeress’, ‘waiteress’, this last indeed having recently come up again."