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comfortresses

comfortresses is the plural of comfortress.

Meaning of comfortress

Noun

comfortress (plural comfortresses)

  1. (rare) A woman who comforts.
    • To be your comfortress, and to preserve you1605 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, Ben: Ionson His Volpone or The Foxe, [London]: […] [George Eld] for Thomas Thorppe, published 1607, →OCLC, (please specify the Internet Archive page)

Questions about comfortresses

What is comfortresses the plural of?
Comfortresses is the plural of comfortress.

Words near comfortresses in the dictionary

  1. comfortlessly
  2. comfortlessness
  3. comfortment
  4. comfortments
  5. comfortress
  6. comfortresses
  7. comfortroot
  8. comfortroots
  9. comforts
  10. comfortsome
  11. comfortwear

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