secretaress

plural secretaresses

1. alternativeAlternative spelling of secretaryess.

   Lord Milton would ask the Foreign Secretaress what was our present attitude in regard to the United States.

   1871, Punch; or, The London Charivari, page 220

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   P. S. My Wife gives her Service, and on this Revolution, is in great Hopes of being Secretareſs of State; if ſhe is, ſhe will remember Mr. Stonecaſtle.

   1741, The London Magazine, and Monthly Chronologer, page 94

   Ladies desirous of enrolling themselves as students at the College of Beauty are requested to send in their names at once to the secretaress, Madame Brown.

   1894, The Strand Magazine, volume 7, page 662

   The good nurse, governess, and doctoress, whom you so kindly remember, has much ado to forbear being again scrittorist* on this occasion: […] *Secretaress.

   1900, The Life, Unpublished Letters, and Philosophical Regimen of Anthony, Earl of Shaftesbury, page 488

   Were it not for the E. affair, I think she would make a very popular lady-secretaress, almost as much so as dear, good, lovely, and lamented Mrs. Porter.

   1906, Margaret Bayard Smith, Gaillard Hunt, The First Forty Years of Washington Society, page 321

   Tommy helped elect Wilson, so do not be at all surprised to see our pride appointed as the first occupant of the chair Secretaress of Health, Santé and Gesundheit! And won’t she run that cabinet at a mile a minute!

   1913, Chips, volume 13, page 73