herbmistress

English

Etymology

From herb +‎ mistress.

Noun

herbmistress (plural herbmistresses)

1. A female herbmaster.
   • 1988, Diana L[ucile] Paxson, The White Raven, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow and Company, →ISBN, page 77:

     Her mother is the queen, the most knowledgeable herbmistress and healer in Eriu.

   • 2006, Robert Newcomb, Savage Messiah, New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 19:

     “And because of these facets of the craft, partial adepts can also sometimes be herbmistresses or herbmasters.”

   • 2017, Deborah A. Wolf, The Dragon’s Legacy, Titan Books, →ISBN, page 137:

     Ismai dragged his feet all the way from the Youths’ Quarter, to which he had been banished until someone figured out exactly what to do with him, through the children’s garden and the kitchens, and down the red-stone path to the riverside cliffs, where the herbmistress had her rooms and where Hafsa Azeina had set up her tent.