siress

plural siresses

1. uncommonA female sir.

   >Sir Doctress Neutopia (neut...@external.umass.edu) / PS: Siress, surely.

   1995 July 24, David DeLaney, “Re: THE IMPERIAL MANIFESTO OF USENET”, in news.misc (Usenet), message-ID <3uvihp$gtp@martha.utk.edu>

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   At dinner the first night, with all the lords and ladies, sirs and siresses, I was sensational.

   1988, Marvin Kitman, I Am a VCR: The Kitman Tapes, Random House, →ISBN, page 14

   Dear Sirs and Siresses, / No one but the Sanhedrin is allowed to view the holy sacred stone tablet. So there’s no use telling non-homosexual male European Americans where it is located. But surely they may not doubt nonetheless that what’s written there is the word of the Lord.

   1993, The Liberty Bell, volume 21, Liberty Bell Publications, page 55

   Dear Sirs/ and Siresses / I need titles to science fiction short stories with anarchy or libertarianism as a political theme.

   1996 December 16, Robert J. Kolker, “Need titles and authors”, in rec.arts.sf.written (Usenet), message-ID <rjk.850769664@laraby.tiac.net>

   Sir, if sir and not siress you are, why not turn it into a script and send it to ITV or STV, it got my chuckle muscles vibrating, it would make a change from the unfunny rubbish broadcast by both channels, Naked Video and Rab excepted.

   1997 March 29, Michael Swift, “Re: The Twatlight Zone”, in soc.culture.british (Usenet), message-ID <ZGTA1BAPuFPzEwfX@yeton.demon.co.uk>

   Dear Sirs and Siresses, / Anyone know if there is a java event that catches if the window has been resized either using cursors or the min/max icons?

   1997 June 26, Alastair R Todd, “Catching if the user resizes a window”, in microsoft.public.java.visualj++ (Usenet), message-ID <33B23459.2C3B@net7.co.uk>