Requestress vs Requester - What's the difference?
requestress | requester | coordinate terms |
(rare) A female that requests; a female requester.
* 1920 : Cyrus Townsend Brady (?), The Ring and the Man ,
* 1979 : Ray Coryton Hutchinson [aut.], Martyn Skinner [aut.], and Rupert Hart-Davis [ed.], Two Men of Letters: Correspondence Between R.C. Hutchinson, Novelist, and Martyn Skinner, Poet, 1957–1974 ,
Requestress is a coordinate term of requester.
As nouns the difference between requestress and requester
is that requestress is (rare) a female that requests; a female requester while requester is one who, or that which, makes a request.requestress
English
Noun
page 37(Jarrolds)
- It amazed Gormly too, when requests and requester?—?or should I say requestress ??—?were both promptly referred to him.
page 173(Joseph; ISBN 0718118413, 9780718118419)
- Some time during the summer I produced, by request, a ballad for a Girl Guides’ Pageant on the subject of Drake’s Cannon-Ball, a local legend. It was (also by request) in the stanza of ‘Young Lochinvar’, and occupied me three days. The requestress was in raptures, but then she doesn’t know a trochee from an iambus (nor, for that matter – like de la Mare – do I).