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victress

victress is the alternative form 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

Forms of victress

pluralvictresses

Questions about victress

What is victress the alternative form of?
Victress is the alternative form of victoress.

Words near victress in the dictionary

  1. victorying
  2. victoryless
  3. Victorys
  4. victour
  5. victours
  6. victress
  7. victresses
  8. victrice
  9. victrices
  10. victrix
  11. victrola

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