"requestress" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: requestresses [plural]
Etymology: From requester + -ess. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|requester|ess}} requester + -ess Head templates: {{en-noun}} requestress (plural requestresses)
  1. (rare) A woman who requests; a female requester. Tags: rare Coordinate_terms: requester
    Sense id: en-requestress-en-noun-0KS0vmd8 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ess, Pages with 1 entry

Inflected forms

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          "text": "It amazed Gormly too, when requests and requester — or should I say requestress? — were both promptly referred to him."
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          "ref": "1979: Ray Coryton Hutchinson [aut.], Martyn Skinner [aut.], and Rupert Hart-Davis [ed.], Two Men of Letters: Correspondence Between R.C. Hutchinson, Novelist, and Martyn Skinner, Poet, 1957–1974, page 173 (Joseph; →ISBN, 9780718118419)",
          "text": "Some time during the summer I produced, by request, a ballad for a Girl Guides’ Pageant on the subject of Drake’s Cannon-Ball, a local legend. It was (also by request) in the stanza of ‘Young Lochinvar’, and occupied me three days. The requestress was in raptures, but then she doesn’t know a trochee from an iambus (nor, for that matter – like de la Mare – do I)."
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