lepressn.adj.

?1541 R. Copland Maner to Examyne Lazares in Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens sig. Qij^v Yf the mother be a lepresse [Fr. si la mere est ladresse].

?1541 R. Copland Maner to Examyne Lazares in Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens sig. Qiij Than ought ye to enquyre yf he hath had y^e company of any lepresse woman [Fr. de quelque ladresse].

1811 Crit. Rev. Mar. 238 The Rajah..leaves his intended bride to deplore her obstinacy in the loss of her charms, being changed in an instant to a disgusting lepress.

1843 W. C. Taylor Revol., Insurrections, & Conspiracies Europe II. 127 He [sc. Philip the Long] granted to lepresses the privilege of a jury of matrons before the day for their execution should be finally determined.

1886 T. De W. Talmage Marriage Ring i. 16 If after all that Christ and Christianity have done for a woman she can go again and again to hear such assaults, she is an awful creature, and you had better not come near such a reeking lepress.

1909 D. Moore & F. G. Guggisberg We Two in W. Afr. xix. 301 The two best [Aggri beads] were bought from a lepress and had to be thoroughly disinfected.

2001 F. Devlin-Glass & L. McCredden Feminist Poetics of Sacred v. 124 One by one, in the shape of a lepress she lay with the claimants and captured them.