secretaryess

English

Alternative forms

secretaress

Etymology

From secretary +‎ -ess.

Noun

secretaryess (plural secretaryesses)

a female secretary.
- 1905 December 9, “The Isle of Beautiful Woman”, in The San Francisco Call, volume XCIX, number 9, San Francisco, Calif., page 8, column 4:
  “He clearly comes within my province,” said the Secretaryess of Foreign Affairs. “I will attend to his case.” / “No, I will,” cried all the other Secretaryesses, and after that all of the unofficial electors said that they would.
- 1915, John Ames Mitchell, Life, page 1083:
  "Why," defiantly explains the secretaryess of the treasury, "I ran my department just as I ran my home. I have had everything charged.
- 1918 July 27, “Appraising the Americans: The Wild Shouts, the Rush of the Cars As a Tonic for Paris”, in Concordia Daily Blade, volume XVII, number 62, Concordia, Kan., page [4], columns 3–4:
  Yea, the police procession of technical units, of Red Cross and Y. M. C. A. secretaries and secretaryesses, the days of the college boy ambulanciers and society women in pretty white nursie outfits, of Lady Bountifuls on missions of mercy (pictures in the Sunday rotogravure sections of the New York papers)—all is over.
- 1930, The Journal of Electrical Workers and Operators, page 524:
  Well, Mrs. Simpson, you sure are there as press secretaryess for the Ladies Social Club.
- 2017, Peter D. O'Neill, Famine Irish and the American Racial State, Routledge, →ISBN, page 127:
  At Lost Rosary's conclusion, in a purported conversation with publisher Donahoe, McCorry levels the same accusation at the secretaryess herself: