secretaress

secretaress (plural secretaresses)

1. Alternative spelling of secretaryess
   • 1741, The London Magazine, and Monthly Chronologer, page 94:

     P. S. My Wife gives her Service, and on this Revolution, is in great Hopes of being Secretareſs of State; if ſhe is, ſhe will remember Mr. Stonecaſtle.

   • 1871, Punch; or, The London Charivari, page 220:

     Lord Milton would ask the Foreign Secretaress what was our present attitude in regard to the United States.

   • 1894, The Strand Magazine, volume 7, page 662:

     Ladies desirous of enrolling themselves as students at the College of Beauty are requested to send in their names at once to the secretaress, Madame Brown.

   • 1900, The Life, Unpublished Letters, and Philosophical Regimen of Anthony, Earl of Shaftesbury, page 488:

     The good nurse, governess, and doctoress, whom you so kindly remember, has much ado to forbear being again scrittorist* on this occasion: […] *Secretaress.

   • 1906, Margaret Bayard Smith, Gaillard Hunt, The First Forty Years of Washington Society, page 321:

     Were it not for the E. affair, I think she would make a very popular lady-secretaress, almost as much so as dear, good, lovely, and lamented Mrs. Porter.

   • 1913, Chips, volume 13, page 73:

     Tommy helped elect Wilson, so do not be at all surprised to see our pride appointed as the first occupant of the chair Secretaress of Health, Santé and Gesundheit! And won’t she run that cabinet at a mile a minute!

   • 1913 October 19, Andrew S. Baldwin, “Even Turkish Women Run This Newspaper”, in Sunday World-Herald, volume XLIX, number 3, Omaha, Neb., Second News and Editorial Section, page 1:

     For the miracle of “Kadinlar Dunjasse” and all of its co-editresses, leader-writeresses, and secretaresses, is that they are running this first woman’s daily paper on sound old-Turkish, anti-feminist lines, and they have as much horror as any odalisque of Abdul Hamid for bare faces, hats, split skirts, the orgy of undress or votes for women.

   • 1947, Collie Knox, It Had to be Me, page 152:

     I conjure up a terrifying picture of Her Excellency the Ambassadress to Timbuctoo, writing official minutes to the Right Hon. Mrs. Smith, lately appointed Foreign Secretaress to His Majesty’s Government.

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