requestress

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noun

A woman who requests; a female requester.

Scrabble 20

Meanings

nounrequestress (plural requestresses)

plural requestresses

  1. rareA 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)
    1 more example

    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 trochee from an iambus (nor, for that matter – like de la Mare – do I).

    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, page 173 (Joseph; →ISBN, 9780718118419)

Origin

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APA

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MLA

“requestress.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/requestress. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “requestress,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/requestress.

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