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victoresses

victoresses is the plural of victoress.

Meaning of victoress

Noun

victoress (plural victoresses)

  1. (obsolete) A female victor.
    • But when the victoreſſe arriued there, / Where late ſhe left the penſife Scudamore, / With her owne truſty Squire, both full of feare, / Neither of them ſhe found where ſhe them lore:[…].1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part I (books I–III), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 44, page 588

Questions about victoresses

What is victoresses the plural of?
Victoresses is the plural of victoress.

Words near victoresses in the dictionary

  1. victor ludorum
  2. Victor Vlad Delamarina
  3. victor's justice
  4. Victorello
  5. victoress
  6. victoresses
  7. victorfish
  8. victoria
  9. Victoria blue
  10. Victoria blues
  11. Victoria Bridge

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