agentess
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]agentess (plural agentesses)
- (rare, dated) A female agent.
- 1972, Richard P. Brickner, Bringing Down the House, page 103:
- Never would Miss Coco of Transverse Airways have occurred to him in the course of the usual retrospective—actresses, agentesses, lawyeresses, writers, singers, painters, teachers, and Mrs. Retzers—the usual review of women tried, and untried but tryable.