victoress
English
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Etymology
Noun
victoress (plural victoresses)
- (obsolete) A female victor.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.12:
- But when the Victoresse arrived there / Where late she left the pensife Scudamore / With her own trusty Squire, both full of feare, / Neither of them she found where she them lore […].
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.12: