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Definition of Citess
1. n. A city woman
Definition of Citess
1. Noun. (obsolete) A city woman. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Citess
1. not a gentlewoman [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Citess
Literary usage of Citess
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of the People of the United States, from the Revolution to the by John Bach McMasters (1921)
"A second objected to citess because it might be translated " a woman of the town.
... In commenting on the use of citess, an editor observes that, ..."
2. A History of the People of the United States: From the Revolution to the by John Bach McMaster (1885)
"IA second objected to citess because it might be translated " a woman of the town.
... In commenting on the use of citess, an editor observes that, ..."
3. Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science by Johns Hopkins University, Herbert Baxter Adams (1897)
"By Citizen Thatcher, Citizen Frederick W. Geyer, Jr., to citess Rebecca, daughter
to Citizen ... Cit and citess is to come instead of Gaffer and Gammer, ..."
4. Contemporary American Opinion of the French Revolution by Charles Downer Hazen (1897)
"By Citizen Thatcher, Citizen Frederick W. Geyer, Jr., to citess Rebecca, daughter
to Citizen ... Cit and citess is to come instead of Gaffer and Gammer, ..."
5. Democracy and the Organization of Political Parties by Moisei Ostrogorski (1902)
"2 In the United States, where the same republican masquerade was then still more
freely indulged in, the variation citess was introduced (" Both men and ..."
6. A Vocabulary; Or, Collection of Words and Phrases: Or, Collection of Words by John Pickering (1816)
"citess, however, in the sense of " a city woman," is in Johnson's and the other
English dictionaries: But it is there said to be " peculiar to Dryden. ..."
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