Auctioneeress
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A female auctioneer. nonstandard
"I have little news to tell you, except that Mrs. ⸺, the auctioneeress, if there be such a word, is likely to die, and that the sorrowing widower, in posse, is said to have already made arrangements to take the beautiful (Oh! that I could add prudent) Miss Foote, as her successor."
Example
More examples"I have little news to tell you, except that Mrs. ⸺, the auctioneeress, if there be such a word, is likely to die, and that the sorrowing widower, in posse, is said to have already made arrangements to take the beautiful (Oh! that I could add prudent) Miss Foote, as her successor."
Etymology
From auctioneer + -ess.
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