conqueress
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English conqueresse, conquiris, conquires, probably from Old French; equivalent to conquer + -ess.
Noun edit
conqueress (plural conqueresses)
- A female conqueror.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, stanza 36, page 278:
- And now by this the noble Conquereſſe / Her ſelfe came in, her glory to partake;