Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare A female ostler.
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- noun A
female ostler .
Etymologies
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ostler + -ess
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Examples
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Nothing was seen or heard further of Durbeyfield in his triumphal chariot under the conduct of the ostleress, and the club having entered the allotted space, dancing began.
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Nothing was seen or heard further of Durbeyfield in his triumphal chariot under the conduct of the ostleress, and the club having entered the allotted space, dancing began.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles Thomas Hardy 1884
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