Tapstress

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A female tapster.

    "I was rather tickled to learn that she worked as a tapstress in a City public-house."

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"I was rather tickled to learn that she worked as a tapstress in a City public-house."

Etymology

From tapster + -ess.

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