chieftess

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chieftess

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An irregular form from chief or chieftain + -ess.

noun chieftesses

Synonym of chieftainess: a female chieftain or the wife of a chief. "This heroine was ever after treated by her nation as their deliverer, and made a chieftess in her own right, with the liberty to entail the same honour on her descendants ..." New travels among the Indians of North America, William Fisher, ed., p. 294; attributed to Rev. J. Hubbard. http://books.go
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@misc{chieftess_2026,
  title = {chieftess},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/chieftess},
  urldate = {2026-11-07}
}