释义 |
gloveress|ˈglʌvərɪs| [f. glover + -ess.] A female glove-maker.
1712Lond. Gaz. No. 5009/4 Sarah Lewis..a Gloveress by Imployment. 1837Thackeray Ravenswing iv, A gloveress..lets me have dem. 1862Mrs. H. Wood Mrs. Hallib. (1864) I. xviii. 99 Quite a colony of workwomen—gloveresses as they are termed in the local phraseology. |