citizeness
(ˈsɪtɪzənɪs)
[f. prec. n. + -ess.]
A female citizen. Chiefly as a transl. of F. citoyenne of 1789, but also otherwise to emphasize sex.
| 1796 Coleridge in Cottle Remin. 84, I hope and trust that your young citizeness is well. 1796 Monthly Rev. XX. 569 The bleaching-troughs of the citizeness Masson. 1861 Trafford City & Suburb III. 10 It would not suit, uncle, for me to be a citizeness now. 1878 Mrs. Stowe Poganuc P. xi. 96 Difficult to get any of the free democratic citizens or citizenesses to come. |