harpress

From harper +‎ -ess.

harpress (plural harpresses)

1. (archaic) A female harpist.
   • 1814 July 7, [Walter Scott], Waverley; or, ’Tis Sixty Years Since. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh:  […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC:

     the soft sigh of the evening breeze in the rustling leaves of an aspen which overhung the seat of the fair harpress

• “harpress”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Sharpers, phrasers, sharpers