SECRETARY
NOUNS, PERSON
1382 • NOTARY a personal secretary or clerk → obs.
1390 • SECRETAIRE a secretary → obs.
1511 • SCRIVAN a clerk, secretary, or scribe → historical
1525 • SECRETAR a secretary → Sc.
1552 • PENMAN a clerk, a secretary → chiefly historical usage
1581 • SCRIVANO a clerk, secretary, or scribe → historical
1622 • MUNSHI a secretary; a language teacher → S. Asia
1727 • PROTOCOLIST a person who records protocols; a registrar; a clerk, a secretary → chiefly historical usage
1762 • CURSITOR a secretary → obs.
1925 • MABALANE a clerk, a secretary; a person whose work includes the keeping of written records → S. Afr.
1930 • GAL FRIDAY • GIRL FRIDAY a female secretary or personal assistant → sl., orig. US
………. • OFFICE WIFE a man’s female secretary → US sl., now depreciative
1977 • MOTHER a senior secretary → UK civil service usage
1998 • WOMAN FRIDAY a secretary and helper (Bk.)
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