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fisheresses

fisheresses is the plural of fisheress.

Meaning of fisheress

Noun

fisheress (plural fisheresses)

  1. (rare) A female fisher.
    • Fancy again, Lady fisheresses (I appeal to good old Tory young ladies who land big salmon every autumn in or about the Gordon-Richmond estates in Scotland), how much jollier it is to see the monarch of the stream on the grass than to ‘rink’ at Prince’s, or to be carried round Belgravian...1876, Baily’s Magazine of Sports and Pastimes, volume XXVIII, number 192, Cornhill, London: A. H. Baily & Co., About Several Men Who Went A-Angling, pages 167–168

Questions about fisheresses

What is fisheresses the plural of?
Fisheresses is the plural of fisheress.

Words near fisheresses in the dictionary

  1. fisherboy
  2. fisherboys
  3. fisherellin
  4. fisherellins
  5. fisheress
  6. fisheresses
  7. fisherette
  8. fisherettes
  9. fisherfolk
  10. fisherfolks
  11. fishergirl

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