spousess

English

Etymology

From spouse +‎ -ess.

Noun

spousess (plural spousesses)

1. (obsolete) A wife or bride.
   • 2007, Anne Crawford, quoting Robert Fabyan, The Yorkists: The history of a dynasty.‎^[1] (History), quoted in The New Chronicles of England and France (1515), →ISBN, page 68:

     One account has it that at the ceremony there 'were no persons present but the spouse, the spousess, the Duchess of Bedford her mother, the priest, two gentlemen and a young man to help the priest sing.'

References

• “spousess”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.