Definitions
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- noun obsolete A maidservant.
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- noun obsolete A
maidservant .
Etymologies
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servant + -ess
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Examples
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(Prov.vii. 4); ‘servantess’ (Gen.xvi. 2); ‘leperess’ (= saltatrix,
English Past and Present Richard Chenevix Trench 1846
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