clownessn.
/klaʊˈnɛs/, /ˈklaʊnᵻs/, U.S. /ˈklaʊnəs/ A female clown or rustic.Apparently an isolated use.
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1801 C. K. Sharpe Corr. 12 Jan. (1888) I. 103 The clowns with lank rat-tail hair,..the clownesses with long stiff feathers stuck round their heads.
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n.1801- in anyone's book
- in apert
- in appanage
- in arabesque
- in areading
- in arms
- in arrear
- in arrear of
- in arrearages
- in arrears
- in arrest
- in arrow
- in articulo mortis
- in as mickle
- in as mickle as
- in astyle
- in at door
- in at doors
- in at elbows
- in at one ear and out also at the other
- in at one ear and out of the other
- in at one ear and out the other
- in at the kill
- in at the wane of the moon
- in at the window