vicaress

plural vicaresses

1. A sister lower in order than an abbess or mother superior in a nunnery or convent.
2. A female representative.
3. The wife of a parish vicar.

   Champagne had quickened her tongue, whereas the vicaress began to wax somnolent with a pleasant sense of satiety. She responded in monosyllables to Mrs. Marjoy's dithyrambics on morals.

   1905, Warwick Deeping, chapter XXV, in The Slanderers, Harper and Brothers