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English
Etymology
From webster + -ess.
Noun
webstress (plural webstresses)
- (rare, archaic) A female webster or weaver
1922, Charles Plummer, Bethada Náem NÉrenn:The stick of a webstress found in the house,
Held by Eithne in the time of her travail,
A withered hazel staff,
Was covered with fair fresh leaves.
1928, Alice Stopford Green, Irish history studies, page 14:We read of Maedhoc's mother, a webstress; of Ciaran's mother, with her flax drying on her walls, which caught fire and set the house in flames;
2016, Earle Birney, Beryl Rowland, Essays on Chaucerian Irony:Though their plots were such as thrived in bourgeois Flanders and were retold in taproom by apprentice or Bath webstress, yet they became, with Chaucer, sophisticated short stories, flavoured with cautious balancing, allusive aphorism and with refined double-speaking even in the midst of earthy words and acts.