vicaress
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
vicaress (plural vicaresses)
- A sister lower in order than an abbess or mother superior in a nunnery or convent.
- A female representative.
- The wife of a parish vicar.
- 1905, Warwick Deeping, chapter XXV, in The Slanderers[1], Harper and Brothers:
- Champagne had quickened her tongue, whereas the vicaress began to wax somnolent with a pleasant sense of satiety. She responded in monosyllables to Mrs. Marjoy's dithyrambics on morals.
Translations edit
sister lower than an abbess or mother superior
female representative
wife of a vicar
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References edit
- Found in the Oxford English Dictionary