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单词 regratress
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regratressn.

Forms: 1600s regrateress, 1800s regratress.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation; modelled on a French lexical item. Etymons: regrater n., -ess suffix1.
Etymology: < regrater n. + -ess suffix1, after French †regratiere (1611 in Cotgrave: see quot. 1611; 1553 in Middle French as regrettière) and probably also Anglo-Norman regrateresse (c1300 or earlier). Compare post-classical Latin regraterissa (frequently from mid 13th cent. in British sources), regratrix (1357 in a British source), regratatrix (1381 in a British source).
Obsolete. rare.
A female regrater (regrater n.).
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1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Regratiere, an Hucksteresse; also, a Regrateresse.
1877 W. W. Skeat Notes to Langland's Piers Plowman C. iv. 82 The baker did not sell the bread to the public, but to the regratresses.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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