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Swissess
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English
Etymology
From en Swiss -ess<id:female>, perhaps with influence from en fr Suissesse.
Noun
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en dated rare A Swiss woman or girl.
en 1836 Caroline Bowles Southey Gems Selected from the Poems of Caroline Bowles Light and Horton Boston 88 https://archive.org/details/gemsselectedfro00soutgoog/page/n126 She had been engaged as French governess to his four little daughters, who were also provided with an English teacher, and attended by half the masters in the metropolis. The young Swissess had been received on the most unexceptionable recommendation, as to character, connexions, and elegant acquirements;