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单词 knightess
释义 knightess rare.|ˈnaɪtɪs|
[f. knight n. + -ess1.]
a. A woman who fights like a knight.
b. A female member of a knightly order.
c. The wife of a knight.
a1553Udall Royster D. iv. viii. (Arb.) 78 Too it againe, my knightesses, downe with them all.1693tr. Emilianne's Hist. Monast. Ord. ii. ii. 238 The Order of the Nuns Knightesses, Sword-bearers of St. James in Spain.1843Mirror II. 161/2 There is reason to believe that as well as Knights there were knight-esses, or ladies, of that order.1845Disraeli Sybil ii. ii, The ‘honourable baronetess’..or the ‘honourable knightess’.
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