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Definition of Cateresses
1. cateress [n] - See also: cateress
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cateresses
Literary usage of Cateresses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study by William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, Isabel Eaton (1899)
"... of eighty- three colored caterers and cateresses, whose employment by families
who entertain to any extent surely diminishes the need in those families ..."
2. The Autobiography of Goethe: Truth and Poetry, from My Own Life by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1900)
"... of indulgent and froward mothers, sisters, aunts, and cateresses. Vohs had
married the extremely graceful Forth, fashioned by nature for ..."
3. Memoirs of William Beckford of Fonthill by Cyrus Redding (1859)
"... Camareira Mor and five or six hags of quality were feeding upon high-seasoned
dishes, being cateresses of powerful intrepidity. The repast was splendid, ..."
4. Educational Survey of Elyria, Ohio: Made Under the Direction of the United by United States Bureau of Education, United States (1918)
"Females—Retail store employees, teachers, domestic and personal service (cooks,
domestics, housekeepers, maids, seamstresses, laundresses, cateresses), ..."
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