bonzessrare.|bɒnˈzɛs| [f. F. bonzesse, fem. of bonze, 18th c. in Littré.] A female bonze. 1860All Y. RoundNo. 64. 322 Buddhism and Lamaism..permit women..to escape from the sorrows of social life by making a religious and monastic profession, under the title of Bonzesses.