spousess
English
editEtymology
editNoun
editspousess (plural spousesses)
- (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
edit- “spousess”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.