Swissess

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English

Etymology

From Swiss +‎ -ess, perhaps with influence from French Suissesse.

Noun

Swissess (plural not attested)

  1. (dated, rare) A Swiss woman or girl.
    • 1836, Caroline Bowles Southey, Gems Selected from the Poems of Caroline Bowles, Boston: Light and Horton, page 88:
      She had been engaged as French governess to his four little daughters, who were also provided with an English teacher, and attended by half the masters in the metropolis. The young Swissess had been received on the most unexceptionable recommendation, as to character, connexions, and elegant acquirements; []