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governor-esses

governor-esses is the plural of governor-ess.

Meaning of governor-ess

Noun

governor-ess (plural governor-esses)

  1. A female governor.
    • Frantz for governor. All the world loves a cheerful man. Frantz will control the state convention. Webbers Falls is to have a new railroad. Frantz will be nominated without opposition. This is the day the republicans name the governor. Today the corner stone of this grand new state will be laid....1907 August 1, Porter Enterprise, volume 4, number 35, Porter, Okla., page [4], column 1
  2. The wife of a governor.
    • He opens a ball (given by the Governor) with Lady Le Marchmont (this little fellow of 15 and the full-blown Governor-ess must have made a sweet couple).1859 January 8, “The Royal Middy and His Adulators”, in The Glasgow Herald, number 6024, page 4, column 6

Questions about governor-esses

What is governor-esses the plural of?
Governor-esses is the plural of governor-ess.

Words near governor-esses in the dictionary

  1. Governor Winthrop desks
  2. governor's plum
  3. governor's plums
  4. Governor's Strait
  5. governor-ess
  6. governor-esses
  7. governor-general
  8. governor-general-in-council
  9. governor-generals-in-council
  10. governor-generalship
  11. governor-generalships

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