dwarfess
English
Noun
dwarfess (plural dwarfesses)
- (fantasy) A female dwarf.
- 1839, Leopold J. Bernays (translator), Geothe’s Faust, Part II: Translated from the German, Partly in the Metres of the Original and Partly in Prose, with Other Poems, Original and Translated, Sampson Low, page 76,
- Pigmies. […] If a rocky cleft shows itself, the dwarf is once at hand. Dwarf and dwarfess, quick in industry, each pair exemplary.
- 1990, Tanith Lee, “White As Sin, Now”, in Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling (editors), The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror, Third Annual Collection, St. Martin's Press, 0-312-04450-X, page 328,
- Heracty has been told that the flaxen dwarfess once had an adventure in the mock forest below the Palace.
- 2004, Randall Wallace, Love and Honor, Simon and Schuster, ISBN 0-7432-6519-X, page 367,
- She recognized Zepsha’s extraordinary talent for this role; the dwarfess, far from resenting her position in life, […] . For not lamenting her physical shortcomings, Beatrice admired Zepsha; […]
- 1839, Leopold J. Bernays (translator), Geothe’s Faust, Part II: Translated from the German, Partly in the Metres of the Original and Partly in Prose, with Other Poems, Original and Translated, Sampson Low, page 76,
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