dwarfess

== English == === Alternative forms === dwarvess (rare) === Etymology === From dwarf + -ess. === Pronunciation === === Noun === dwarfess (plural dwarfesses) (dated) A human female dwarf. For more quotations using this term, see Citations:dwarfess. Synonym: dwarfette (fantasy) A female of the dwarf race. 1990, Tanith Lee, “White As Sin, Now”, in Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling (editors), The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror, Third Annual Collection,[3] 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. For more quotations using this term, see Citations:dwarfess. Synonyms: dwarfette, dwarfmaid, dwarrowdam