vice-reine

plural vice-reines

1. alternativeAlternative form of vicereine.

   She is jolly and democratic which is a new thing in vice-reines.

   1922 October 15, Lucy Maud Montgomery, edited by Hildi Froese Tiessen and Paul Gerard Tiessen, After Green Gables: L.M. Montgomery’s Letters to Ephraim Weber, 1916–1941, Toronto; Buffalo; London: University of Toronto Press, published 2006, →ISBN, page 103

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   At a beautiful garden, full of fruit trees, a feast was spread under a noble banyan, the vice-reine causing the cloth next to her to be allotted to her guests, whom she tended affectionately, gathering and paring fruit, cutting flowers and weaving them for them, and, unlike the Hindoos, freely eating what they handed her.

   1871, C[harlotte] M[ary] Yonge, “The Judson Family”, in Pioneers and Founders. Or Recent Workers in the Mission Field., Macmillan & Co, page 129

   Ruling women could wield authority not only as consort, regnant, regent and even dowager queens, but also as proxy rulers such as lieutenants, governors and vice-reines.

   2020, Amanda L. Capern, editor, The Routledge History of Women in Early Modern Europe, Routledge, →ISBN