Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A female incumbent.
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Examples
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Don't mention it from me, but if you have a mind you may make your court to my Lady Orford, by announcing the ancient barony of Clinton, which is fallen to her, by the death of the last incumbentess. (
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3 Horace Walpole 1757
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