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ˈtapstress
[f. tapster + -ess; formed after tapster had ceased to be feminine: cf. seamstress, songstress.]
A female tapster.
1631Heywood 1st Pt. Maid of West i. Wks. 1874 II. 269 You are some tapstresse. 1667Sir C. Lyttelton in Hatton Corr. (Camden) 52 Hee has married a dirty tapstresse. 1839H. Ainsworth J. Shepherd iii. xiii, The tapstress was full of curiosity. |