agentess

English

Etymology

agent +‎ -ess

Noun

agentess (plural agentesses)

  1. (rare, dated) A female agent.
    • 1972, Richard P. Brickner, Bringing Down the House, page 103:
      Never would Miss Coco of Transverse Airways have occurred to him in the course of the usual retrospective—actresses, agentesses, lawyeresses, writers, singers, painters, teachers, and Mrs. Retzers—the usual review of women tried, and untried but tryable.

Anagrams
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.