dwarfesses

Noun

dwarfess (plural dwarfesses)

1. (dated) A human female dwarf.
   • Gibson and his wife were among the best English-born artists of their era. He was just three feet six inches in height; she was a dwarfess of the same proportion. This little couple had nine good-sized children, and having weathered the storms of civil war, lived happily together to old age.1847, Agnes Strickland, Lives of the Queens of England, volume XIII, page 247

   Synonyms:

   dwarfette

2. A female of the dwarf race.
   • Heracty has been told that the flaxen dwarfess once had an adventure in the mock forest below the Palace.1990, Tanith Lee, “White As Sin, Now”, in Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling (editors), The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror, Third Annual Collection, St. Martin's Press, 0-312-04450-X, page 328

   Synonyms:

   dwarfette, dwarfmaid, dwarrowdam