Fisherette
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Fisherette is a noun meaning (chiefly dated) A female fisher (one who catches fish).
Meaning
(chiefly dated) A female fisher (one who catches fish).
Example Sentences
Playful Porpoise leaps into air to snatch food from pretty fisherettes at the “Theater of the Sea.”
If you are a fisherman or a “fisherette” you may write to one of the advertisers in The New Department for a fly-book.
But, somehow, I felt a bit self-conscious, embarrassed almost as though I had caught some young angler kissing a fisherette.
A fisherette from Berry, Miss Mildred Cannon, helped Wiley Cannon, also of Berry, and J. W. Fulmer, of Bankston, bring in a string of 41 bream and bass.
Word Forms
- fisherettes
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include fisheress, fisherwoman, fishwoman, fish, henfish, marineress.
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