dwarfess

plural dwarfesses · alternative rare dwarvess

1. datedA human female dwarf.

   Beside him stood a dwarfess, even smaller than he was, snub-nosed and doll-faced.

   1980, Lilli Palmer, A Time to Embrace, page 201

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   Gibson and his wife were among the best English-born artists of their era. He was just three feet six inches in height; she was a dwarfess of the same proportion. This little couple had nine good-sized children, and having weathered the storms of civil war, lived happily together to old age.

   1847, Agnes Strickland, Lives of the Queens of England, volume XIII, page 247

   “I have no idea what they will do with it,” he [Vladimir Nabokov] said. “Of course they will have to change the plot. Perhaps they will make Lolita a dwarfess. Or they will make her 16 and Humbert 26. I just don’t know. It’s difficult to translate a book into a movie.”

   1958 November 24, “Ithaca and 'Lolita'”, in Newsweek, page 155

   Synonyms: dwarfette

2. fantasyA female of the dwarf race.

   1990, Tanith Lee, “White As Sin, Now”, in Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling (editors), The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror, Third Annual Collection, St. Martin's Press, 0-312-04450-X, page 328, Heracty has been told that the flaxen dwarfess once had an adventure in the mock forest below the Palace.

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   She was a silver-haired, rather portly dwarfess...and the most powerful enchantress in Ilsdale, if not in the known world.

   2004, James Haberlin, Brian Haberlin, But, But...Barbarians?, page 207

   Opening the door, I immediately see a stout dwarfess, probably the owner, behind a counter and a group of young cat-people girls in aprons serving food and alcohol to customers.

   2014, Fujino Omori, Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?, volume 1, page 51

   Synonyms: dwarfette, dwarfmaid, dwarrowdam