bookkeeperess

plural bookkeeperesses

1. datedrareA female bookkeeper.

   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

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   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 thousands of dollars of her employers’ money—just like a man bookkeeper might have done. The “chug wagon” costs money for stabling and repairs. Female bookkeepers and cashiers should be bonded as well as their brothers.

   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

   A piercing scream broke in upon the stillness of the editorial sanctum yesterday afternoon. Investigation disclosed the fact that a pencil had rolled off the desk in the bookkeeper’s office and struck the bookkeeperess on the knee just at the moment she spied a mouse scurrying across the floor. The mouse escaped and the lady is expected to recover.

   1922 March 24, “Now—The Point Was This—”, in The Chadron Journal, volume XXXVIII, number 26, Chadron, Neb.

   Helen Seevers, editor of the Kingsway Page, a house bulletin at that west side inn, has an interesting column headed, “Heard at the Front Desk” . . . . 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