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clientess en · NOUN

Etymology

From client + -ess.

Meanings

1. (nonstandard, rare) A female client.
   • The clientesses' skirts are short and daring, their stretch stocking-boots rise above their knees. 2022, Alisa Ganieva, Offended Sensibilities:
   • He holds his clientesses, not by a benefit, but by a temptation; by their folly and weakness, not by their wisdom. 1893, The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, page 446:
   • Possible too to have a lawyer bribeless and without fee, if his clientess, or female client, please his eye well: […] 1840, The Works of Thomas Middleton, page 521:

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