knavess
English
editEtymology
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editNoun
editknavess (plural knavesses)
- (archaic) A knavish woman.
- 1833, Thomas Carlyle, Count Cagliostro:
- Cullies, the easy cushions on which knaves and knavesses repose and fatten, have at all times existed, in considerable profusion
References
edit“knavess”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.