emperess

English

Noun

emperess (plural emperesses)

Obsolete spelling of empress
- c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], part 1, 2nd edition, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene ii:
  He ſends this Souldans daughter rich and braue,
  To be my Queene and portly Empereſſe, […]

References

emperess in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Anagrams

empresse

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