muletress
nounEtymology From muleteer + -ess.
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Archaic A female muleteer.
- From this romance — something like which the muletress seemed to think might well happen concerning herself — we passed lightly to speak of kindred things, the muletress responding gayly between the blows she bestowed upon her beast.1867, W. D. Howells, Italian Journeys, page 121: