rabbitess

plural rabbitesses

1. rareA female rabbit.

   “This is Chirk,” as the gray rabbitess rose, revealing that she too was in the fur, “and Qui’relle, but you can call her Qui’[.]”

   1997 winter, SilverFox [pseudonym], “A Surprise for Sean”, in Sylverfox [pseudonym; Brian L. Miller], editor, NewFurrottica […], volume 1, number 4, SilverFox Publications, page 37, column 1

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   You could not call that life, under the humanitarian Tigrocracy, when a Rabbit was gnawed by hunger or the fear of hunger all through a boring life; when the Rabbitesses were taught to think mating ignoble and when in fact it was one long Boredom-cum-Anxiety.

   1933 December 15, Count [Geoffrey] Potocki of Montalk, “‘Sed Risus Cum Tiger Manebat’ (A Parable […])”, in Seven, numbers 1–8, published 1938–1940, page 25; reprinted Nendeln, Eschen: Kraus Reprint, 1969, →OCLC

   [T]he tigresses have passed through with such triumphant ease. They have massacred their adversaries by margins ranging from 9 and 8 downwards. They are quite merciless, and not in the least frightened of the rabbitesses, if I may so respectfully term them, but knock their heads off accordingly.

   1938 May 28, Bernard Darwin, “Golf: Ladies at Burnham”, in Country Life […], volume LXXXIII, number 2158, London, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 561, column 1

   “Didja hear the game, didja, huh?” The action accompanying this monologue was reminiscent of that Bugs Bunny picture where the rabbitess winks at dear old Bugs and he does the world’s first four-second mile . . . .

   1946 October 4, Jerry Murphy, “Collegiana”, in George Farnham, editor, Saint Mary’s Collegian, volume XLIV, number 3, Moraga, Calif.: Associated Students of Saint Mary’s College, →OCLC, page 2, column 7

   A blond bunny rabbit stood grinning before him. […] Harry guided his white rabbitess to a table by the window. […] Madeline wiggled out of her coat, revealing almost the same body carved in Harry’s memory.

   1990, Gloria Nagy, chapter 1, in A House in the Hamptons (One Summer Near the End of the L.I.E.): A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Delacorte Press, →ISBN, page 13

   Bloody Rabbitess—the rabbit the Maya see in the moon, with its ears at Mare Fecunditatis and Mare Nectaris—was in her house, that is, there was a lunar halo, meaning rain was coming.

   2009, Brian D’Amato, chapter 25, in In the Courts of the Sun, New York, N.Y.: Dutton, →ISBN, page 263