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brewess

brewess noun: a female brewer.

Noun

brewess (plural brewesses)

  1. (historical, obsolete) A female brewer.
    • There are a great many other references to ale-wives and brewesses in the descriptive poems of the medieval period, and women continued to brew beer and ale until at least the sixteenth century […]1947, Frank Alfred King, Beer Has a History, page 32

Forms of brewess

pluralbrewesses

Origin of brewess

From brew + -ess.

Questions about brewess

What does brewess mean?
Brewess means a female brewer.
What part of speech is brewess?
Brewess is a noun.
What is the plural of brewess?
The plural of brewess is brewesses.

Words near brewess in the dictionary

  1. brewers' rice
  2. brewers' spent grains
  3. brewership
  4. brewerships
  5. brewery
  6. brewess
  7. brewesses
  8. brewest
  9. breweth
  10. brewfest
  11. brewfests

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