slavess

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English

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Etymology

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From slave +‎ -ess.

Noun

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slavess (plural slavesses)

  1. female slave
    Hypernym: slave
    • 1883, Parliamentary Papers - Volume 66, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons., page 2:
      Should a Moor marry his slavess, which is a common practice here, the latter is free from the moment of such marriage, and her offspring likewise.
    • 1913, The Holy Bible in Modern English: Containing the Complete Sacred Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments[1], page 110:
      But now you have turned and polluted My Name, and everyone seizes his male or female slave, whom you had released into freedom, to pollute and degrade them to be your slaves and slavesses.
    • 2016, Edgar Chías, translated by Migdalia Cruz, Sky on the Skin, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 54:
      I come home from working to support you and all the other slavesses that I have.

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