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victress en · NOUN

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1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of victoress.
   alt of victoress
   • And at the field fought before Bebriacum, ere the battailes joyned, tvvo Ægles had a conflict and bickered together in all their fights: and vvhen the one of them was foyled and overcome, a third came at the very inſtant from the ſunne riſing and chaſed the Victreſſe avvay. 1606, Caius [i.e., Gaius] Suetonius Tranquillus, “The Historie of Flavius Vespatianus Augustus”, in Philêmon Holland, transl., The Historie of Twelve Cæsars Emperours of Rome. […], London: […] [Humphrey Lownes and George Snowdon] for Matthew Lownes, →OCLC, section 5, page 243:
   • The mill lasted four rounds, when giddy little Ettie was declared the victress. 1902 October 1, The Sydney Sportsman, page 5, column 6:

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