brewess

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brewess

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From brew + -ess.

noun 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 […]

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@misc{brewess_2026,
  title = {brewess},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/brewess},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}