nonce-wd. [see -ESS.] A female chancellor; also a chancellor’s wife.
1748. H. Walpole, Corr. (1837), I. 113. The gentleman then made the same confidence to the chancelloress.
1861. Thackeray, Lovel the Wid., iii. Because she has not been invited to the Lady Chancelloress’s soirée.
