lieutenantess

plural lieutenantesses

1. datedA female lieutenant.

   Here I never see a white woman, save two Irish lieutenantesses.

   1863, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, “Army Life and Camp Drill”, in Mary Thacher Higginson, editor, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, 1846-1906, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Company; Cambridge: The Riverside Press, published 1921, page 185

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   To the Queen of Arragon. To the most illuſtrious Queen, our moſt dear and moſt beloved Wife, and Lieutenanteſs generall.

   1654, “Manner of writing used by the Arragonian Kings of Naples writing to divers Princes”, in Parthenopoeia, or the History of the Most Noble and Renowned Kingdom of Naples, with the Dominions Therunto Annexed, and the Lives of All Their Kings, London: […] Humphrey Moseley, page 181

   But what shall be our uniform? As I hope to be at least a Lieutenant-ess in the new Female Battalion, I should like to be getting the materials together.

   1861 May 18, Council Bluffs Nonpareil, volume V, number 4 (whole 212), Council Bluffs, Iowa

   Capt. S. B. Bentley and a select quartet then sang “Beans for Dinner,” the band played “Bully for You,” and the march was at once taken up for McGregor’s Hall, where Mrs. Gregg and her lieutenantesses had spread the board for about as well prepared meal as ever we struck.

   1878 October 3, Monongahela Valley Republican, volume XXVIII, number 14, Monongahela, Pa.

   Let it not be imagined that I am high and mighty enough to associate on terms of an equality with lordly Lieutenants and lordlier Lieutenantesses. No![…]I approached an open window to feast my ears with the music and my eyes with the beauty of the aforesaid Lieutenantesses.

   1879 October 3, The Leavenworth Times, number 7,226, Leavenworth, Kan.

   Imagine Sam. going down Broadway some afternoon with a captainess in front of him, a lieutenantess on either side of him, and a sergeantess in the rear!

   1880 March 25, Knoxville Daily Chronicle, volume X, Knoxville, Tenn.