1594. Carew, Tasso (1881), 59. Now to the combat had this wariouresse Plighted her selfe.
1596. Spenser, F. Q., V. vii. 27. Eftsoones that warrioresse with haughty crest Did forth issue, all ready for the fight.
1652–62. Heylyn, Cosmogr., I. (1682), 126. Mathildis, that famous Warriouress, who carried so great a stroke in the state of Italy.
1755. T. H. Croker, Orl. Fur., XXII. lxxxviii. He quickly turns, and in his turning view’d, Sight of his warrioress belov’d to gain.
1885. Aubrey de Vere, Ess. (1887), I. ii. 58. The virgin warrioress assails the castle.
fig. 1598. J. Dickenson, Greene in Conc. (1878), 137. With her tongue she was as tall a warriouresse as any of hir sexe.
