DCHP-1 Online
seigneuress [< F] Hist. 
n. the wife of a seigneur (def. 1).
See also: seigneur (def. 1)
- 1769 (1931) I paid my respects wherever I stopped, to the seigneuress of the village; for as to the seigneurs, except two or three, if they had not wives, they would not be worth visiting.
- 1792 (1911) . . . we dined and slept at the house of Madame Hamelin, the seigneuresse of this village [Grondines, L.C.]. . . .
- 1882 It contained the boudoir and sleeping apartments of some of the fair seignioresses of Beauport in the house which Robert Giffard the first seignor built there more than two centuries ago.
- 1769 (1931) I paid my respects wherever I stopped, to the seigneuress of the village; for as to the seigneurs, except two or three, if they had not wives, they would not be worth visiting.