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bookkeeperess

bookkeeperess noun: a female bookkeeper.

Noun

bookkeeperess (plural bookkeeperesses)

  1. (dated, rare) A female bookkeeper.
    • Bookkeeperesses and cashieresses are progressing. They are developing the same extravagant tastes which bring the men into trouble. In San Francisco the bookkeeper of a commission house, a young woman, became so fascinated with the sport of automobiling that she appropriated hundreds, perhaps...1904, The Coast Review, page 629
    • “Miss Simpkins, please make the gentleman out a receipt for seventy-five dollars’ deposit on camera,” said the dealer in a matter-of-fact tone. “Yes, sir,” said the bookkeeperess.1912 September, Francis John Dyer, “John Henry Essays Photography”, in Camera Craft, volume XIX, number 9, San Francisco, Calif., page 414

Examples of bookkeeperess in a sentence

  • Bookkeeperesses and cashieresses are progressing.1904, The Coast Review, page 629:
  • The “Böser-Buben-Ball” is the orgy of our somewhat violently smart younger generation, of the high-spirited bookkeeperesses, other-esses, and bank boys.1929, Ludwig Hirschfeld, translated by T[homas] W. MacCallum, The Vienna That’s Not in the Baedeker, Robert M. McBride & Company, page 143:
  • Where Bookkeeperess Agnes Lyons hears all that is to be heard. . . .1936 March 6, “’Round the Town with Regan”, in St. Louis Star-Times, volume 50, number 134, St. Louis, Mo., page thirty-one:
  • Margaret Perrat, attractive bookkeeperess over at Triangle Liquor Co., puts in ample time and exhibits great patience to keep the company figures, states Harry Hyer, company salesmanager.1942 February 11, “’Round the Town with Regan”, in St. Louis Star-Times, volume 56, number 113, page nineteen:

Forms of bookkeeperess

pluralbookkeeperesses

Origin of bookkeeperess

From bookkeeper + -ess.

Questions about bookkeeperess

What does bookkeeperess mean?
Bookkeeperess means a female bookkeeper.
How do you use bookkeeperess in a sentence?
Bookkeeperesses and cashieresses are progressing.
What part of speech is bookkeeperess?
Bookkeeperess is a noun.
What is the plural of bookkeeperess?
The plural of bookkeeperess is bookkeeperesses.

Words near bookkeeperess in the dictionary

  1. bookists
  2. bookjacket
  3. bookjackets
  4. bookkeep
  5. bookkeeper
  6. bookkeeperess
  7. bookkeeperesses
  8. bookkeepers
  9. bookkeeping
  10. bookkeeping machine
  11. bookkeeping machines

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