"brewess" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1947, Frank Alfred King, Beer Has a History, page 32:",
          "text": "There are a great many other references to ale-wives and brewesses in the descriptive poems of the medieval period, and women continued to brew beer and ale until at least the sixteenth century […]",
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      "glosses": [
        "A female brewer."
      ],
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          "brewer",
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete or historical) A female brewer."
      ],
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        "historical",
        "obsolete"
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  "word": "brewess"
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    {
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      "tags": [
        "plural"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        "English countable nouns",
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        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1947, Frank Alfred King, Beer Has a History, page 32:",
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        }
      ],
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        "A female brewer."
      ],
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        [
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          "brewer"
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        "(obsolete or historical) A female brewer."
      ],
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        "historical",
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
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  "word": "brewess"
}