clientess
nounEtymology From client + -ess.
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Nonstandard, Rare A female client.
- Possible too to have a lawyer bribeless and without fee, if his clientess, or female client, please his eye well: […]1840, The Works of Thomas Middleton, page 521:
- He holds his clientesses, not by a benefit, but by a temptation; by their folly and weakness, not by their wisdom.1893, The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, page 446:
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- The clientesses' skirts are short and daring, their stretch stocking-boots rise above their knees.2022, Alisa Ganieva, Offended Sensibilities: