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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

To the great delight of the farmerette, it was found that all the shoots had now broken through the soil and tiny green heads were showing in neat rows wherever Natalie had planted seeds.

From Natalie: A Garden Scout by Roy, Lillian Elizabeth

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

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