secretaryess

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

secretary +‎ -ess

Noun

secretaryess (plural secretaryesses)

  1. a female secretary.
    • 1915, John Ames Mitchell, Life, page 1083:
      "Why," defiantly explains the secretaryess of the treasury, "I ran my department just as I ran my home. I have had everything charged.
    • 1930, The Journal of Electrical Workers and Operators, page 524:
      Well, Mrs. Simpson, you sure are there as press secretaryess for the Ladies Social Club.
    • '2017, Peter D. O'Neill, Famine Irish and the American Racial State, Routledge, →ISBN, page 127:
      At Lost Rosarys conclusion, in a purported conversation with publisher Donahoe, McCorry levels the same accusation at the secretaryess herself:
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