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单词 sextress
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sextressn.

Forms: Middle English sextresse, 1800s sextress.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymon: sexton n.
Etymology: < sexton n., with ending remodelled after -tress suffix. Compare sextry n., and also sextoness n., sextrice n.
Obsolete. rare.
= sextoness n.
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society > faith > church government > laity > lay functionaries > sexton > [noun] > female
sextona1325
sextressc1390
sextonessa1450
sextricec1475
butt woman1823
c1390 in C. Horstmann Minor Poems Vernon MS (1892) 138 (MED) Hou vre lady dude þe offys of a sextresse fyftene ȝeer for a nonne.
1839 Handbill 29 Dec. in Times (1840) 6 Feb. 7/3 I hereby caution all persons against trusting my wife, Margaret Shoobridge, (late Margaret Brooke, who formerly held the situation of sextress at Wandsworth Church).
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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