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  • noun Plural form of chiefess.

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Examples

  • The Hawaiian chiefesses, who married haoles, had their possessions, under the management of their haole husbands, increase prodigiously.

    ON THE MAKALOA MAT 2010

  • The Hawaiian chiefesses, who married haoles, had their possessions, under the management of their haole husbands, increase prodigiously.

    ON THE MAKALOA MAT 1993

  • The Hawaiian chiefesses, who married haoles, had their possessions, under the management of their haole husbands, increase prodigiously.

    On the Makaloa Mat 1919

  • Aiwohikupua clothed the chiefs and chiefesses and his two favorites in feather capes and the women of his household in braided mats of Kauai.

    The Hawaiian Romance Of Laieikawai Martha Warren Beckwith 1915

  • Kings and queens, chiefs and chiefesses, priests and warriors, were sent ashore crapulous in many a jolly-boat, or paddled their own canoes, after areareas on war-ships and merchantmen.

    Mystic Isles of the South Seas. Frederick O'Brien 1900

  • Old chiefs and chiefesses I have had confess to me that they were stunned by the novelties, commands, and demands of the papaa

    Mystic Isles of the South Seas. Frederick O'Brien 1900

  • I have been told of many chiefesses nearly or quite six feet in height, and many chiefs from six feet two inches to six feet six, and in one case six feet seven inches high.

    Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands Charles Nordhoff 1865

  • While he passed through the islands of Maui, Molokai, and Oahu, he contracted marriages everywhere, as well with the women of the people as with the highest chiefesses.

    Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands Charles Nordhoff 1865

  • The chiefesses alone enjoyed equal rights with men.

    Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands Charles Nordhoff 1865

  • By his numerous marriages with chiefesses and common women without distinction, this king has made the Hawaiian nobility, the present alii say, bastard and dishonored.

    Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands Charles Nordhoff 1865

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