Meaning of secretaress | Babel Free
Definitions
Alternative spelling of secretaryess.
alt-of, alternative
Examples
“P. S. My Wife gives her Service, and on this Revolution, is in great Hopes of being Secretareſs of State; if ſhe is, ſhe will remember Mr. Stonecaſtle.”
“Lord Milton would ask the Foreign Secretaress what was our present attitude in regard to the United States.”
“Ladies desirous of enrolling themselves as students at the College of Beauty are requested to send in their names at once to the secretaress, Madame Brown.”
“The good nurse, governess, and doctoress, whom you so kindly remember, has much ado to forbear being again scrittorist* on this occasion: […] *Secretaress.”
“Were it not for the E. affair, I think she would make a very popular lady-secretaress, almost as much so as dear, good, lovely, and lamented Mrs. Porter.”
“Tommy helped elect Wilson, so do not be at all surprised to see our pride appointed as the first occupant of the chair Secretaress of Health, Santé and Gesundheit! And won’t she run that cabinet at a mile a minute!”
“For the miracle of “Kadinlar Dunjasse” and all of its co-editresses, leader-writeresses, and secretaresses, is that they are running this first woman’s daily paper on sound old-Turkish, anti-feminist lines, and they have as much horror as any odalisque of Abdul Hamid for bare faces, hats, split skirts, the orgy of undress or votes for women.”
“I conjure up a terrifying picture of Her Excellency the Ambassadress to Timbuctoo, writing official minutes to the Right Hon. Mrs. Smith, lately appointed Foreign Secretaress to His Majesty’s Government.”
CEFR level
C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.