Definitions
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- noun dated A
female butcher (dealer in meat). - noun dated A
murderess .
Etymologies
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Examples
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“I have been to see the brother,” “I just looked in as I passed to bid good day to the niece” (or “to my niece the butcheress”).
The Guermantes Way 2003
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His first writings in his native town had been some Parnassian sonnets celebrating the copious charms of a handsome pork-butcheress.
His Masterpiece ��mile Zola 1871
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The butcheress will fell him like a Kerry ox, and I may have his blood to answer for, and his discomfiture to feel for, in addition to my own miseries. "
Phelim Otoole's Courtship and Other Stories Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three William Carleton 1831
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