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herbmistress en · NOUN

Etymology

From herb + mistress.

Meanings

1. A female herbmaster.
   • Her mother is the queen, the most knowledgeable herbmistress and healer in Eriu. 1988, Diana L[ucile] Paxson, The White Raven, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow and Company, →ISBN, page 77:
   • “And because of these facets of the craft, partial adepts can also sometimes be herbmistresses or herbmasters.” 2006, Robert Newcomb, Savage Messiah, New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 19:
   • Ismai dragged his feet all the way from the Youths’ Quarter, to which he had been banished until someone figured out exactly what to do with him, through the children’s garden and the kitchens, and down the red-stone path to the riverside cliffs, where the herbmistress had her rooms and where Hafsa Azeina had set up her tent. 2017, Deborah A. Wolf, The Dragon’s Legacy, Titan Books, →ISBN, page 137:

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