warrioress
(ˈwɒrɪərɪs)
[f. warrior + -ess.]
A female warrior.
| 1594 Carew Tasso (1881) 59 Now to the combat had this wariouresse Plighted her selfe. 1596 Spenser F.Q. v. vii. 27 Eftsoones that warrioresse with haughty crest Did forth issue, all ready for the fight. 1652–62 Heylyn Cosmogr. i. (1682) 126 Mathildis, that famous Warriouress, who carried so great a stroke in the state of Italy. 1755 T. H. Croker Orl. Fur. xxii. lxxxviii, He quickly turns, and in his turning view'd, Sight of his warrioress belov'd to gain. 1885 Aubrey de Vere Ess. (1887) I. ii. 58 The virgin warrioress assails the castle. |
| fig. 1598 J. Dickenson Greene in Conc. (1878) 137 With her tongue she was as tall a warriouresse as any of hir sexe. |