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commissionairess

commissionairess noun: a female commissionaire.

Noun

commissionairess (plural commissionairesses)

  1. A female commissionaire.
    • “What if women commissioners should be appointed?” asked the Doubter. “Create the title, ‘commissionairess’,” said the Serious Minded.1903 February 22, “Hon. Mr. Commissioner Title for School Man. Brooklyn Experts Take Up the Proposition Affecting Dignity of the Schools. May a Teacher Talk of Board?”, in The Brooklyn Daily Eagle...
    • […]but when the door was opened for him and he had to an address he remembered that he wanted to go nowhere in particular, unless to see the second commissionairess forty yards further on.1915, The Sketch: A Journal of Art and Actuality, volume XCI, page 30, column 3

Examples of commissionairess in a sentence

  • […]minister-girls, and commissionairesses, who are filling the places of men[…]1916, The Homestead, page 3:
  • A call from Joan Axelrod’s secretary to tell me she and her commissionairess waited lunch for me yesterday.1968 October 16, Don Bachardy, [Letter to Christopher Isherwood]; republished as Katherine Bucknell, editor, The Animals: Love Letters...
  • Susan Karp and Sharon Kass, Co-Commissionairesses1979, The Baker Street Journal, Fordham University Press, page 56:

Forms of commissionairess

pluralcommissionairesses

Origin of commissionairess

From commissionaire + -ess.

Questions about commissionairess

What does commissionairess mean?
Commissionairess means a female commissionaire.
How do you use commissionairess in a sentence?
[…]minister-girls, and commissionairesses, who are filling the places of men[…]
What part of speech is commissionairess?
Commissionairess is a noun.
What is the plural of commissionairess?
The plural of commissionairess is commissionairesses.

Words near commissionairess in the dictionary

  1. commission breath
  2. commission de bene esse
  3. commissionable
  4. commissionaire
  5. commissionaires
  6. commissionairess
  7. commissionairesses
  8. commissional
  9. commissionaries
  10. commissionary
  11. commissionate

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