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- noun dated A female
clerk .
Etymologies
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clerk + -ess
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Examples
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"woman as clerkess" is inscribed on the portal of the modern society which is in course of formation.
Beyond Good and Evil Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 1872
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