cateress

plural cateresses

1. A woman who caters.

   With her abundance; she, good cateress, Means her provision only to the good

   Comus

   1634 October 9 (first performance; Gregorian calendar), [John Milton], edited by H[enry] Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […] [Comus], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, […], published 1637, →OCLC; reprinted as Comus: […] (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, →OCLC

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   After a while the mistress of the house arose, and said to the cateress: " Arise, O my sister, and let us fulfil our debt." The cateress left the saloon, and soon returned leading two black hounds , with chains around their necks.

   1913, Frances Jenkins Olcott, The Arabian Nights, page 33

   In the kitchen, partly partitioned by a curtain, the cateress and her helper were busy.

   2015, Joan Williams, Lisa C. Hickman, Remembering: Joan Williams' Uncollected Pieces