vicaress

English

Etymology

vicar +‎ -ess

Noun

vicaress (plural vicaresses)

1. A sister lower in order than an abbess or mother superior in a nunnery or convent.
2. A female representative.
3. The wife of a parish vicar.
   • 1905, Warwick Deeping, chapter XXV, in The Slanderers‎^[1], Harper and Brothers:

     Champagne had quickened her tongue, whereas the vicaress began to wax somnolent with a pleasant sense of satiety. She responded in monosyllables to Mrs. Marjoy's dithyrambics on morals.

Translations

sister lower than an abbess or mother superior

female representative

wife of a vicar

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Translations to be checked

• Italian: vicaria

References

• Found in the Oxford English Dictionary