Victoress

Alternative forms

• victress

Origin

From victor + -ess.

Full definition of victoress

Noun

1. (obsolete) A female victor.
• 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.12:But when the Victoresse arrived there
  Where late she left the pensife Scudamore
  With her own trusty Squire, both full of feare,
  Neither of them she found where she them lore ….