clientess

A female client.

Noun

  1. A female client.
    • Possible too to have a lawyer bribeless and without fee, if his clientess, or female client, please his eye well: […] - 1840, The Works of Thomas Middleton, page 521:
    • He holds his clientesses, not by a benefit, but by a temptation; by their folly and weakness, not by their wisdom. - 1893, The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, page 446:
    • The clientesses' skirts are short and daring, their stretch stocking-boots rise above their knees. - 2022, Alisa Ganieva, Offended Sensibilities:

Origin

From client + -ess.

Forms

clientesses