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English
Etymology
From cater + -ess.
Noun
cateress (plural cateresses)
- (obsolete) A woman who caters.
1634 October 9 (first performance), [John Milton], edited by H Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: [Comus], London: [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, , published 1637, →OCLC; reprinted as Comus: (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, →OCLC:With her abundance; she, good cateress,
Means her provision only to the good
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