requestress

Noun

requestress (plural requestresses)

1. (rare) A woman who requests; a female requester.
   • It amazed Gormly too, when requests and requester — or should I say requestress? — were both promptly referred to him.1920: Cyrus Townsend Brady (?), The Ring and the Man, page 37 (Jarrolds)
   • 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...1979: Ray Coryton Hutchinson [aut.], Martyn Skinner [aut.], and Rupert Hart-Davis [ed.], Two Men of Letters: Correspondence Between R.C. Hutchinson, Novelist, and Martyn Skinner, Poet, 1957–1974...