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English
Etymology
From requester + -ess.
Noun
requestress (plural requestresses)
- (rare) A woman who requests; a female requester.
- 1920: Cyrus Townsend Brady (?), The Ring and the Man, page 37 (Jarrolds)
- It amazed Gormly too, when requests and requester — or should I say requestress? — were both promptly referred to him.
- 1979: Ray Coryton Hutchinson , Martyn Skinner , and Rupert Hart-Davis , Two Men of Letters: Correspondence Between R.C. Hutchinson, Novelist, and Martyn Skinner, Poet, 1957–1974, page 173 (Joseph; →ISBN, 9780718118419)
- Some time during the summer I produced, by request, a ballad for a Girl Guides’ Pageant on the subject of Drake’s Cannon-Ball, a local legend. It was (also by request) in the stanza of ‘Young Lochinvar’, and occupied me three days. The requestress was in raptures, but then she doesn’t know a trochee from an iambus (nor, for that matter – like de la Mare – do I).
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