admiralessn.
/ˌadm(ə)rəˈlɛs/, /ˈadm(ə)rəlᵻs/, U.S. /ˈædm(ə)rələs/ Now rare.
The wife of an admiral. Also: a female admiral.
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1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Admirale, an Admirallesse.
1662 Life & Death Mrs. Mary Frith 48 I had the Command of those Waterworks, being Admirallesse of the Vessels that sayl upon Folks backs.
1842 J. F. Cooper Wing-and-Wing II. i. 10 The Queen of the Fleet—our Lady Admiraless, had it all to herself.
1927 Galveston (Texas) Daily News 8 Jan. 5/2 Large, unwieldy glasses were forced upon the long-suffering Camp Hughes men to drink to the admiral, the admiraless and others.
1946 J. Lees-Milne Diary 29 Oct. (1983) 103 The Admiral, Admiraless and Miss P came down in the afternoon.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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