arbitress

• The Brabanter found the Queen in company with the kingdom's arbitress--Dame Catherine de Salisbury, whom King Edward, third of that name to reign in Britain, and now warring in France, very notoriously adored and obeyed This king, indeed, had been despatched into France chiefly, they narrate, to release the Countess' husband, William de Montacute, from the French prison of the Chatelet. —  Chivalry
• Mr. Trevelyan then related the foregoing sallies to the fair arbitress, who listened with keen relish and enjoyment. —  Lady Rosamond's Secret A Romance of Fredericton
• To these mentioned by Dr Lowth may be added arbitress, poetess, chauntress, duchess, tigress governess, tutress, peeress, authoress, traytress, and perhaps othets Of these variable terminations we have only a sufficient number to make us feel our want; for when we say of a woman that she is a philosopher an astronomer, a builder, a weaver, a dancer, we perceive an impropriety in the termination which we cannot avoid; but we can say that she is an architect, a botanist, a student. —  A Grammar of the English Tongue
• The Marquise de Boufflers was gambling herself to ruin; the Comtesse de Boufflers was wringing out the last drops of her reputation as the mistress of a Royal Prince; the Maréchale de Mirepoix was involved in shady politics; the Maréchale de Luxembourg was obliterating a highly dubious past by a scrupulous attention to 'bon ton,' of which, at last, she became the arbitress: 'Quel ton! —  Books and Characters French and English
• The Brabanter found plump Queen Philippa with the kingdom's arbitress--Dame Catherine de Salisbury, whom King Edward, third of that name to reign in Britain, and now warring in France, very notoriously adored and obeyed This king, indeed, had been despatched into France chiefly, they narrate, to release the Countess' husband, William de Montacute, from the French prison of the Chגtelet. —  Chivalry

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