championess
English
Etymology
From champion + -ess.
Noun
championess (plural championesses)
- (archaic) A female champion.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.12:
- Then laid the noble Championesse strong hond / Upon th'enchaunter which had her distrest / So sore, and with foule outrages opprest.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.12: