Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A female supplicant or suitor.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A female supplicant.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
female supplicant .
Etymologies
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suitor + -ess?
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Examples
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Still, beggars may not be choosers, and I am sure we shall find many a suitress in the months ahead.
At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002
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Still, beggars may not be choosers, and I am sure we shall find many a suitress in the months ahead.
At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002
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To beseech your lordships all to consider her woeful case, that being but once licensed to write as an humble suitress unto the Queen's Highness, and received thereby no such comfort as she hoped to have done, but to her further discomfort in a message by me opened, that it was the Queen's
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