rare. [f. BAKER + -ESS; cf. baxter and backstress.] A female baker.
1837. Carlyle, Fr. Rev., I. VII. xi. 352. The Baker, the Bakeress, and Baker’s Boy.
1874. Vagab. Jack, i. in Casquet Lit., 235/1. V. I have a perfect recollection of the pretty bakeress who was the last queen at Carpentras.
