Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A female pope.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A female pope; i. e., the fictitious pope Joan.
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- noun obsolete A
female pope , i.e. the fictitious Pope Joan.
Etymologies
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French papesse.
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Examples
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‘pandress’ (both in Middleton); ‘papess’, ‘Jesuitess’ (Bishop Hall);
English Past and Present Richard Chenevix Trench 1846
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