muletress

noun

muletress

noun

Etymology 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:

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