Meanings
nounmuletress (plural muletresses)
plural muletresses
- archaicA 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
Origin
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