citess
[f. cit + -ess.]
1. A female cit.
| 1685 Dryden Albion & Alb. Prol. 43 Cits and Citesses, raise a joyful strain. |
† 2. A citizeness. ‘Used in America during the first years of the French Revolution as a translation of the revolutionary title citoyenne’ (Bartlett).