rare. A female Briton.
1591. Spenser, Ruines Time, 106. Bunduca, Britonnesse … That … with the Romanes fought.
1832. Macaulay, Burleigh, Ess., 1854, I. 227/1. Such outward marks of servitude as the haughty Britoness [Queen Elizabeth] exacted.
1864. Tennyson, Boädicea, 55. The yellow-ringleted Britoness.
