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brewesses

brewesses is the plural of brewess.

Meaning of brewess

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

Questions about brewesses

What is brewesses the plural of?
Brewesses is the plural of brewess.

Words near brewesses in the dictionary

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

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