Definition of "farmeress" []

• A female farmer. (noun)

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• ""And his wife is the tenant farmeress," said Sarah importantly."
• ""Yes'm, I don't doubt it," agreed Jack, when he had assimilated this remarkable information, "but how come a farmer and a farmeress have time to give lessons in fishing?""
• "The farmeress (if I may be permitted to add a new word to our vocabulary) was uprooting her garden flowers and throwing them away."