vicaresses

Noun

vicaress (plural vicaresses)

1. A sister lower in order than an abbess or mother superior in a nunnery or convent.
2. A female representative.
3. The wife of a parish vicar.
   • 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.1905, Warwick Deeping, chapter XXV, in The Slanderers, Harper and Brothers