Deliveress

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A female deliverer. archaic

    "Joan d'Arc, armed also like a cavalier, with boots and spurs, her hair dishevelled, as the deliveress of the town from our countrymen, when they besieged it"

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"Joan d'Arc, armed also like a cavalier, with boots and spurs, her hair dishevelled, as the deliveress of the town from our countrymen, when they besieged it"

Etymology

From deliver + -ess.

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