abbotess
English
Etymology
Noun
abbotess (plural abbotesses)
References
- Elliott K. Dobbie, C. William Dunmore, Robert K. Barnhart, et al. (editors), Chambers Dictionary of Etymology (Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, 2004 [1998], →ISBN), page 2
- Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abbotess”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 3.