"bookkeeperess" meaning in All languages combined

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  "etymology_text": "From bookkeeper + -ess.",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1904, The Coast Review, page 629",
          "text": "Bookkeeperesses and cashieresses are progressing. They are developing the same extravagant tastes which bring the men into trouble. In San Francisco the bookkeeper of a commission house, a young woman, became so fascinated with the sport of automobiling that she appropriated hundreds, perhaps thousands of dollars of her employers’ money—just like a man bookkeeper might have done. The “chug wagon” costs money for stabling and repairs. Female bookkeepers and cashiers should be bonded as well as their brothers.",
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          "ref": "1912 September, Francis John Dyer, “John Henry Essays Photography”, in Camera Craft, volume XIX, number 9, San Francisco, Calif., page 414",
          "text": "“Miss Simpkins, please make the gentleman out a receipt for seventy-five dollars’ deposit on camera,” said the dealer in a matter-of-fact tone. “Yes, sir,” said the bookkeeperess.",
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        {
          "ref": "1922 March 24, “Now—The Point Was This—”, in The Chadron Journal, volume XXXVIII, number 26, Chadron, Neb.",
          "text": "A piercing scream broke in upon the stillness of the editorial sanctum yesterday afternoon. Investigation disclosed the fact that a pencil had rolled off the desk in the bookkeeper’s office and struck the bookkeeperess on the knee just at the moment she spied a mouse scurrying across the floor. The mouse escaped and the lady is expected to recover.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1929, Ludwig Hirschfeld, translated by T[homas] W. MacCallum, The Vienna That’s Not in the Baedeker, Robert M. McBride & Company, page 143",
          "text": "The “Böser-Buben-Ball” is the orgy of our somewhat violently smart younger generation, of the high-spirited bookkeeperesses, other-esses, and bank boys.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1936 March 6, “’Round the Town with Regan”, in St. Louis Star-Times, volume 50, number 134, St. Louis, Mo., page thirty-one",
          "text": "Helen Seevers, editor of the Kingsway Page, a house bulletin at that west side inn, has an interesting column headed, “Heard at the Front Desk” . . . . Where Bookkeeperess Agnes Lyons hears all that is to be heard. . . .",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1942 February 11, “’Round the Town with Regan”, in St. Louis Star-Times, volume 56, number 113, page nineteen",
          "text": "Margaret Perrat, attractive bookkeeperess over at Triangle Liquor Co., puts in ample time and exhibits great patience to keep the company figures, states Harry Hyer, company salesmanager.",
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        }
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        "A female bookkeeper."
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        "(rare, dated) A female bookkeeper."
      ],
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  "word": "bookkeeperess"
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        {
          "ref": "1904, The Coast Review, page 629",
          "text": "Bookkeeperesses and cashieresses are progressing. They are developing the same extravagant tastes which bring the men into trouble. In San Francisco the bookkeeper of a commission house, a young woman, became so fascinated with the sport of automobiling that she appropriated hundreds, perhaps thousands of dollars of her employers’ money—just like a man bookkeeper might have done. The “chug wagon” costs money for stabling and repairs. Female bookkeepers and cashiers should be bonded as well as their brothers.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1912 September, Francis John Dyer, “John Henry Essays Photography”, in Camera Craft, volume XIX, number 9, San Francisco, Calif., page 414",
          "text": "“Miss Simpkins, please make the gentleman out a receipt for seventy-five dollars’ deposit on camera,” said the dealer in a matter-of-fact tone. “Yes, sir,” said the bookkeeperess.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1922 March 24, “Now—The Point Was This—”, in The Chadron Journal, volume XXXVIII, number 26, Chadron, Neb.",
          "text": "A piercing scream broke in upon the stillness of the editorial sanctum yesterday afternoon. Investigation disclosed the fact that a pencil had rolled off the desk in the bookkeeper’s office and struck the bookkeeperess on the knee just at the moment she spied a mouse scurrying across the floor. The mouse escaped and the lady is expected to recover.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1929, Ludwig Hirschfeld, translated by T[homas] W. MacCallum, The Vienna That’s Not in the Baedeker, Robert M. McBride & Company, page 143",
          "text": "The “Böser-Buben-Ball” is the orgy of our somewhat violently smart younger generation, of the high-spirited bookkeeperesses, other-esses, and bank boys.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1936 March 6, “’Round the Town with Regan”, in St. Louis Star-Times, volume 50, number 134, St. Louis, Mo., page thirty-one",
          "text": "Helen Seevers, editor of the Kingsway Page, a house bulletin at that west side inn, has an interesting column headed, “Heard at the Front Desk” . . . . Where Bookkeeperess Agnes Lyons hears all that is to be heard. . . .",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1942 February 11, “’Round the Town with Regan”, in St. Louis Star-Times, volume 56, number 113, page nineteen",
          "text": "Margaret Perrat, attractive bookkeeperess over at Triangle Liquor Co., puts in ample time and exhibits great patience to keep the company figures, states Harry Hyer, company salesmanager.",
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        }
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