metropolisses

Which done, another Damſel comes and caſts about his Shoulders a magnificent embroider’d Mantle, worth the Metropoliſſes of three great Kingdoms.

1687, J. P., The History of the Most Renowned Don Quixote of Mancha: And His Trusty Squire Sancho Pancha. Now Made English According to the Humour of Our Modern Language. And Adorned with Several Copper Plates., London: Tho. Hodgkin, page 279

All the Metropoliſſes of Provinces (beſides ſeveral others of equal Deſerts) are moſtly reckoned of the ſecond Rank, though poſſibly they do not always deſerve to be called ſo.

1693, Lawrence Eachard, The Gazetteer’s: or, Newsman’s Interpreter: Being a Geographical Index of All the Considerable Cities, Patriarchships, Bishopricks, Universities, Dukedoms, Earldoms, and Such Like; Imperial and Hance Towns, Ports, Forts, Castles, &c. in Europe, the second edition, London: […] Tho. Salusbury

It was in this manner that the riches of India and Europe, accumulated upon the banks of the Nile, the Tigris, and the Euphrates, gave ſucceſſive exiſtence to the ſplendor of a thouſand metropoliſſes.

1792, [Constantin François de Chassebœuf, comte de] Volney, The Ruins: or, A Survey of the Revolutions of Empires, London: […] J. Johnson, page 59