What is "chieftainess"

Usage examples of "chieftainess".

Boadicea, followed by her chiefs and chieftainesses, entered the temple.

These take part in their councils, and are queens and chieftainesses, and when it is necessary they will fight as bravely as the men.

The quogs were cryptorchids so for all he knew perhaps this was a Chieftainess: it was difficult to tell.

The lad, for he was not yet sixteen, was the son of Parta, the chieftainess of one of the divisions of the great tribe of the Iceni, who occupied the tract of country now known as Suffolk, Norfolk, Cambridge, and Huntingdon.

But I have no doubt Aemilia would make quite as good a chieftainess as I should have done.

Speak the true words of the white chieftainess, lest I should find them out otherwise, and give you to the slayers.

Dingaan, supposed, a great chieftainess among the Dutch, added that if he, the mighty and glorious king, the earth-shaker, the world-eater, killed her or any of her subjects, her people would avenge her by killing him and his people.

Tell the old cow of a chieftainess that, notwithstanding her threats, I stick to my promise.

Laleela, you who tell us that you are a chieftainess in your own land?

The fortitude and the eloquence of the Narragansett Chieftainess were born again in the Iroquois maiden.

Then why did you cross it to come hither, Laleela, you who tell us that you are a chieftainess in your own land?

And here once more you have become a chieftainess, Laleela, seeing that you rule him who rules us.