Britoness

From Briton +‎ -ess.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈbɹɪtənɛs/

Britoness (plural Britonesses)

1. (literary) A British woman. [from 16th c.]
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     Yet the bold Britonesse was nought ydred, / Though much emmov'd, but stedfast still persevered.

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