"clientess" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From client + -ess.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "clientesses",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1840, The Works of Thomas Middleton, page 521:",
          "text": "Possible too to have a lawyer bribeless and without fee, if his clientess, or female client, please his eye well: […]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1893, The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, page 446:",
          "text": "He holds his clientesses, not by a benefit, but by a temptation; by their folly and weakness, not by their wisdom.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022, Alisa Ganieva, Offended Sensibilities:",
          "text": "The clientesses' skirts are short and daring, their stretch stocking-boots rise above their knees.",
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        "A female client."
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          "female",
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          "client",
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        "(rare, nonstandard) A female client."
      ],
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  "word": "clientess"
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  "etymology_text": "From client + -ess.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "clientesses",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1840, The Works of Thomas Middleton, page 521:",
          "text": "Possible too to have a lawyer bribeless and without fee, if his clientess, or female client, please his eye well: […]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1893, The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, page 446:",
          "text": "He holds his clientesses, not by a benefit, but by a temptation; by their folly and weakness, not by their wisdom.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2022, Alisa Ganieva, Offended Sensibilities:",
          "text": "The clientesses' skirts are short and daring, their stretch stocking-boots rise above their knees.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A female client."
      ],
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          "client",
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        "(rare, nonstandard) A female client."
      ],
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  "word": "clientess"
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