rare. [f. BRIGAND + -ESS.] A female brigand.
1861. Knickerb. Mag., LVIII. 497. They are a lot of brigandesses that have been recently captured, and liberated on the very flimsiest kind of parole.
1865. Moens, Eng. Trav. & It. Brigands (ed. 2), I. 186 Here I discovered that five of the band were brigandesses.
1869. Echo, 6 Feb. Women with black brows and harsh voices—brigandesses by appearance.
