pythoness

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Known variously to Parisians as "Aunt Genevi�ve," "the Pythoness," sometimes "the wastepaper basket of Europe," Tabouis in private life is the wife of an obscure radio executive, mother of two grown children.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Pythoness, Apollo’s priestess and prophetess, had found him one morning, a little baby, lying on the temple stairway, and had brought him up as tenderly as a mother.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

I am sorry for this his incurable passion to play the Pythoness.

From Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862 by De Gurowski, Adam G., count

This was a female, named also a Pythoness, on account of her seat being formed of massive gold resembling the skin of the serpent Python.

From Heathen Mythology by Various

She sprang off the bed, and stood erect, and looked a Saxon Pythoness: golden hair streaming down her back, and gray eyes gleaming with fury.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866 by Various