The Collaborative International Dictionary
Papess
Papess \Pa"pess\, n. [F. papesse.]
A female pope; i. e., the fictitious pope Joan. [Obs.]
--Bp.
Hall.
Usage examples of "papess".
If Madame Schreck adopts the emblems of the Papess to the manner born, the Fool remains himself, of course.
Her tenets were intended entirely to supersede those of our beloved Lord Jesus, and her friend Magfreda was to be papess, and to succeed to all the power and privileges of the Roman pontiff.
The colletic stare of guards and Englishmen alike was on the sweating, subsaltive hands and on the grinning tarots: the impious Papess, the lascivious Lover, the jeering Fool.