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dentistress

noun

Etymology

From dentist + -ress.

  1. borrowed from dentiste
  2. suffixed as dentistress — “dentist + ress”

Definitions

  1. A female dentist.

    • A Boston dentistress is so pretty that “she could coax a man’s tooth out by just putting her hand under his chin and asking for it.”
    • MRS. A. B. STOCKING, DENTISTRESS, HAS returned, and will resume her business between 21st and 22nd, on Postoffice street.

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