farmerette
Americannoun
Gender
See -ette.
Etymology
Origin of farmerette
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
She had one vanity, however—that of having her picture taken nearly every day in her farmerette clothes.
From Hidden Treasure by Simpson, John Thomas
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
Ruth, who had been trying hard to control her feelings, now broke into sobs, for she had only one farmerette suit and this meant the loss of it.
From Hidden Treasure by Simpson, John Thomas
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