Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A female vassal or dependent.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare A female vassal.
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- noun A
female vassal .
Etymologies
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vassal + -ess
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Examples
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Through her great hate the mistress of the house in evil wise bade Kriemhild stand: “Forsooth no vassaless should ever walk before the queen.”
The Nibelungenlied 2007
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Through her great hate the mistress of the house in evil wise bade Kriemhild stand: "Forsooth no vassaless should ever walk before the queen."
The Nibelungenlied Daniel Bussier Shumway
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When the two queens met on the minster steps, and Brunhild declared that no vassaless should enter before her, Kriemhild reproached her for being the leman of Siegfried, and displayed in proof the ring and girdle he had taken from Brunhild.
National Epics Kate Milner Rabb 1901
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