championess

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Noun

championess (plural championesses)

1. (archaic) A female champion.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.12:

     Then laid the noble Championesse strong hond / Upon th'enchaunter which had her distrest / So sore, and with foule outrages opprest.

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