buildress
English
Etymology
builder + -ess
Noun
buildress (plural buildresses)
- (rare, obsolete, nonstandard) A female builder.
- 1896, “Hardwick”, in The Pall Mall Magazine, volume 9, page 514:
- At present it looks gaunt and dreary, as though the buildress had waited to welcome her Queen, and, waiting in vain, had left it unfinished.
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