[f. prec. sb. + -ESS.] A female citizen. Chiefly as a transl. of F. citoyenne of 1789, but also otherwise to emphasize sex.
1796. Coleridge, in Cottle, Remin., 84. I hope and trust that your young citizeness is well.
1796. Monthly Rev., XX. 569. The bleaching-troughs of the citizeness Masson.
1861. Trafford (Mrs. Riddell), City & Suburb, III. 10. It would not suit, uncle, for me to be a citizeness now.
1878. Mrs. Stowe, Poganuc P., xi. 96. Difficult to get any of the free democratic citizens or citizenesses to come.
