Oh OED, where is "hen-tailor"?

[Joel S. Berson]

The OED does not have "hen-tailor"?  (Gender discrimination?)

I find it about a half-dozen times before 1890 in Google Books, the
earliest being

OUR VILLAGE
By MARY RUSSELL MITFORD
Published 1827
Original from Harvard University
Digitized Nov 6, 2007

page 175
... we can hardly think her unreasonable in requiring the hen-tailor
to cover buttons out of nothing.

Joel

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