Obs. (or nonce-wd.) [f. BUILDER + -ESS.] A female builder.
1566. J. Sanford, trans. Agrippa’s Van. Artes, 12 b. Dido, the first buildresse of Carthage.
1650. Fuller, Pisgah, II. ix. § 8. Sherah … the greatest Buildress in the whole Bible.
1822. Blackw. Mag., XII. 657. Tragedianesses, sonneteeresses, or other ‘buildresses of the lofty rhyme.’
