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ˈgeneraless rare.
[f. general n. + -ess.]
1. A female general.
1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. I. vii. v, He hastily nominates or sanctions generalesses. 1883Harper's Mag June 140/1 She forgot the..Amazons, and generalesses.
2. The wife of a general. rare (chiefly jocular).
1646Cromwell Let. 25 Oct., in Carlyle (1857) I. 212 My service and dear affections to the General and Generaless. 1888Univ. Rev. Oct. 220 The Generaless had not long been dead when Bazaine..married a great Mexican heiress. |