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单词 milleress
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milleressn.

Forms: 1600s milleresse, 1800s milleress.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: miller n.1, -ess suffix1.
Etymology: < miller n.1 + -ess suffix1.In quot. 1881 Beautiful Milleress translates German Schöne Müllerin. N.E.D. (1906) gives the pronunciation as (mi·lərės) /ˈmɪlərɪs/.
Obsolete. rare.
A miller's wife.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of grain > milling or grinding > [noun] > miller
millwardeOE
millerOE
meal-maker1274
windmillward1314
dusty-poll?1518
mill-yemer1530
water miller1533
windmiller1533
pikeman1551
milleress1680
corn-grinder1841
1680 J. Aubrey in J. Walker Lett. Eminent Persons (1813) III. 391 My father was a miller, and my mother a milleresse, and I am now a ladie.
1881 Atlantic Monthly Feb. 299 Let us select at random one of the programmes... Two songs from Schubert's Beautiful Milleress.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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