dentistess
nounEtymology
From dentist + -ess.
- borrowed from dentiste
Definitions
A female dentist.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA