A female grocer; a woman who owns or operates a grocery store or conducts the grocery business.
From grocer plus the feminine suffix -ess. This suffix, from French and Latin, historically feminized occupational nouns, though many such gendered forms are now outdated.
Words like groceress show how English once marked gender in every profession — today most people just say 'grocer' regardless of gender, reflecting changing attitudes about work!
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