brewess
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
brewess (plural brewesses)
- (obsolete or historical) A female brewer.
- 1947, Frank Alfred King, Beer Has a History, page 32:
- 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 […]