thievess

plural thievesses

1. alternativeAlternative form of thiefess.

   THIEVESSES IN BREECHES / The Eighth Ward Police Gather in the Chicken Thieves.

   1890 March 25, The Minneapolis Journal, 5 o’clock edition, Minneapolis, Minn., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 6, column 5

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   New York thievesses pick the pockets of those whom the[y] get to open car windows for them.

   1871 October 13, “News Items”, in S. B. Ryder, editor, Black River Gazette, volume V, number 38, Ludlow, Vt., →OCLC, page [3], column 1

   The thieves began to see starvation gazing upon them. If nobody came out there would be nobody to rob, and there would soon be no bread for the mouths of the thievesses and little thievelets.

   1901 January 24, The Montreal Daily Star, last edition, volume XXXIII, number 20, Montreal, Que.: Graham & Co., →OCLC, page 4, column 3

   He was in close touch with thieves and thievesses from all over the city, […]

   1922 March 19, “‘Receiver’ Sent to Rest […]”, in Truth, number 1,152, Brisbane, Qld., →OCLC, page 3, column 3

   Special cases, such as duke : duchess, master : mistress, thief : thievess demand a separate mention.

   [1933, Leonard Bloomfield, “Morphologic Types”, in Language, New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company, →OCLC, page 238

   The ladies include 40 glamorous thievesses, offspring of Ali Baba’s Forty Thieves—which should give a fair sample of its spasmodically entertaining foolery.

   1955 September 25, “[New Films Reviewed] ‘Son of Sinbad’”, in The Sun-Herald, Sydney, N.S.W., →OCLC, page 69, column 3