brewess

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noun

A female brewer.

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Meanings

nounbrewess (plural brewesses)

plural brewesses

  1. historicalobsoleteA female brewer.

    There are a great many other references to ale-wives and brewesses in the descriptive poems of the medieval period, and women continued to brew beer and ale until at least the sixteenth century […]

    1947, Frank Alfred King, Beer Has a History, page 32

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
alewife

Origin

From brew + -ess.

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Cite this entry
APA

brewess. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/brewess

MLA

“brewess.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/brewess. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “brewess,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/brewess.

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