† ˈaldress Obs.
[f. alder n.2 + -ess; ? short for aldermaness.]
The wife of an alderman or mayor.
| 1608 York Reg. MS. 7 [John Bramhall, alderman of Pontefract, desires to be buried] at the end of the maiors and aldresses stall. 1692 R. Thoresby Dairy I. 220 After with relations..to the funeral of Aldress Hick. 1713 Ibid. II. 180 Madam Nevile was this day buried—also was another aldress interred. |