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Definition of Clerkess
1. a female clerk [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Clerkess
Literary usage of Clerkess
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Scots Law Times by Scotland Land Court (1893)
"In the office the books of the business are kept, and there is a desk occupied
by a clerkess. She is employed continuously there to sell articles to members ..."
2. Neuropsychiatry and the War: A Bibliography with Abstracts by Mabel Webster Brown, Frankwood Earl Williams (1918)
"Under former conditions one clerkess did the work comfortably; now it takes the
full time of four, and they sometimes have to work late and on Sundays. ..."
3. Edinburgh Medical Journal (1906)
"... two shopgirls, six housewives, one matron of a charitable institution, one a
hospital nurse, one a tailoress, one a clerkess, three factory workers, ..."
4. Review of Neurology and Psychiatry (1905)
"The patient was a clerkess aged 31, unmarried, who had been under the treatment
of one of us (AB) in the Royal Infir.mary, Edinburgh, for six months ..."
5. Who's who in Dickens: A Complete Dickens Repertory in Dickens' Own Words by Thomas Alexander Fyfe (1913)
"An hotel clerkess.—" Miss Martin is the young lady at the bar as makes out our
bills; and, though higher than I could wish considering her station, ..."
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