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farmerette

American  
[fahr-muh-ret] / ˌfɑr məˈrɛt /

noun

Older Use.
  1. a girl or woman working on a farm.


Gender

See -ette.

Etymology

Origin of farmerette

An Americanism dating back to 1915–20; farmer + -ette

Example Sentences

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Years before Rosie the Riveter, the image of the farmerette inspired women to challenge traditional gender roles and served as a big boost to the suffragist movement.

From Time • Jun. 28, 2016

Marion Nevada Talley, Kansas farmerette, onetime soprano of the Metropolitan Opera Company, went to Manhattan to make a series of phonograph records.

From Time Magazine Archive

We’ve got to get out our farmerette costumes.

From The Campfire Girls of Roselawn Or, a Strange Message from the Air by Penrose, Margaret

Amy came over immediately after breakfast, dressed in her farmerette costume, which was, in truth, a very practical suit in which to work.

From The Campfire Girls of Roselawn Or, a Strange Message from the Air by Penrose, Margaret

This time the double of Mamise was not posed as a farmerette in an English landscape, but as a woman of fashion in a Colonial drawing-room.

From The Cup of Fury A Novel of Cities and Shipyards by Raleigh, Henry

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