Obs.–1 [f. FORGER1 + -ESS.] A female forger, fashioner, or maker.
c. 1430. Pilgr. Lyf Manhode, II. cxlviii. (1869), 134. Dame justice the smythiere of vertues and the forgeresse hath a file that bi name is cleped correccioun that is the fyle that alwey fyleth sinne to the roote.
