"chapess" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From chap + -ess.",
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      "form": "chapesses",
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  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1990, Samuel Gorley Putt, Wings of a Man's Life:",
          "text": "My friends are the undergraduates, chaps and chapesses, and as long as I can pour good wine down their gullets and listen into the small hours […]",
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          "ref": "2005, James Hawes, Speak for England:",
          "text": "[…] so naturally, we simply couldn't afford to have chaps and chapesses tying the knot and then not having babies after all that fuss.",
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          "ref": "2006, Mark Simpson, Saint Morrissey:",
          "text": "Those revered as saints are usually very peculiar chaps and chapesses who succeeded in refusing life just short of actually killing themselves […]",
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        "A female chap; a woman."
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        "(British, informal) A female chap; a woman."
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          "word": "chappess"
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  "word": "chapess"
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  "etymology_text": "From chap + -ess.",
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    {
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          "ref": "1990, Samuel Gorley Putt, Wings of a Man's Life:",
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          "text": "[…] so naturally, we simply couldn't afford to have chaps and chapesses tying the knot and then not having babies after all that fuss.",
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        },
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          "ref": "2006, Mark Simpson, Saint Morrissey:",
          "text": "Those revered as saints are usually very peculiar chaps and chapesses who succeeded in refusing life just short of actually killing themselves […]",
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      ],
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        "A female chap; a woman."
      ],
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        "(British, informal) A female chap; a woman."
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