Britoness
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[edit]Britoness (plural Britonesses)
- (literary) A British woman. [from 16th c.]
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- Yet the bold Britonesse was nought ydred, / Though much emmov'd, but stedfast still persevered.