"dentistess" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From dentist + -ess.",
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          "ref": "1879 February 5, “Utilizing Natural Force”, in The Cincinnati Daily Star, volume 15, number 31, Cincinnati, Oh., column 2",
          "text": "In the so-called “learned professions” in the United States there are already five hundred and thirty doctresses, sixty-eight preacheresses, and about half a dozen lawyeresses, besides four hundred and twenty dentistesses.",
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          "ref": "1883 January 29, “Personal Points”, in St. Louis Post-Dispatch, volume XXXI, number 195, St. Louis, Mo., page 4, column 3",
          "text": "A Boston dentistess is so pretty that “she could coax a man’s tooth out by just putting her hand under his chin and asking for it.",
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          "ref": "1886 May 27, “Town and County”, in The Dispatch, fifteenth year, number 12, Clay Center, Kan., page 5, column 3",
          "text": "Mr. and Mrs. Dr. Olney are still rejoicing over the late arrival at their home of a little dentist or dentistess.",
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          "ref": "1888 June 9, “How She Won Him”, in Nemaha County Republican, volume XII, number 37, Sabetha, Kan., column 4",
          "text": "When she had finished her studies she put up a sign which read: “Miss Fanny Pullem, Dentistess.” “As a dentistess she thought that there would not be much difficulty in pulling through.",
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        {
          "ref": "1906, Dennis H. Stovall, “On and off the Water Wagon”, in The Gold Bug Story Book: Mining Camp Tales by a Western Writer, Denver, Colo.: Reinert Publishing Company, page 37",
          "text": "The inhabitants of Gold Bug had never realized that a dentist, or “dentistess,” as Slivers called this one, was so badly needed in the camp.",
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          "ref": "1908 March 23, T. E. Powers, “When Women Get Their Rights”, in San Francisco Examiner, volume LXXXVIII, number 83, San Francisco, Calif., page 14",
          "text": "Does it hurt? / You couldn’t hurt me / Dentistess",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1925 March 26, “Purely Personal”, in The Brookville American, Brookville, Pa., page seven, column 4",
          "text": "A daughter was born to Dr. and Mrs. J. A. Thompson, East Main street, on Monday afternoon. The young “dentistess” has been named Sara Ann.",
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        "A female dentist."
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        "(rare) A female dentist."
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  "word": "dentistess"
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          "ref": "1879 February 5, “Utilizing Natural Force”, in The Cincinnati Daily Star, volume 15, number 31, Cincinnati, Oh., column 2",
          "text": "In the so-called “learned professions” in the United States there are already five hundred and thirty doctresses, sixty-eight preacheresses, and about half a dozen lawyeresses, besides four hundred and twenty dentistesses.",
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          "ref": "1883 January 29, “Personal Points”, in St. Louis Post-Dispatch, volume XXXI, number 195, St. Louis, Mo., page 4, column 3",
          "text": "A Boston dentistess is so pretty that “she could coax a man’s tooth out by just putting her hand under his chin and asking for it.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1886 May 27, “Town and County”, in The Dispatch, fifteenth year, number 12, Clay Center, Kan., page 5, column 3",
          "text": "Mr. and Mrs. Dr. Olney are still rejoicing over the late arrival at their home of a little dentist or dentistess.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1888 June 9, “How She Won Him”, in Nemaha County Republican, volume XII, number 37, Sabetha, Kan., column 4",
          "text": "When she had finished her studies she put up a sign which read: “Miss Fanny Pullem, Dentistess.” “As a dentistess she thought that there would not be much difficulty in pulling through.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1906, Dennis H. Stovall, “On and off the Water Wagon”, in The Gold Bug Story Book: Mining Camp Tales by a Western Writer, Denver, Colo.: Reinert Publishing Company, page 37",
          "text": "The inhabitants of Gold Bug had never realized that a dentist, or “dentistess,” as Slivers called this one, was so badly needed in the camp.",
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          "ref": "1908 March 23, T. E. Powers, “When Women Get Their Rights”, in San Francisco Examiner, volume LXXXVIII, number 83, San Francisco, Calif., page 14",
          "text": "Does it hurt? / You couldn’t hurt me / Dentistess",
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          "text": "A daughter was born to Dr. and Mrs. J. A. Thompson, East Main street, on Monday afternoon. The young “dentistess” has been named Sara Ann.",
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        }
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