requestress

A woman who requests; a female requester.

Noun

  1. A woman who requests; a female requester.
    • It amazed Gormly too, when requests and requester — or should I say requestress? — were both promptly referred to him. - 1920: Cyrus Townsend Brady (?), The Ring and the Man, page 37 (Jarrolds)
    • 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...

Origin

From requester + -ess.

Forms

requestresses