[a. OF. conestablesse, f. conestable: see -ESS.] A female constable; the wife of a constable; also a foreign title.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Man of Law’s T., 441. Dame Hermegyld, the constables of the place.
c. 1430. Pilgr. Lyf Manhode, II. civ. (1869), 113. I am ladi and condyeresse, cheuentayn, and constablesse, of alle stoures in cheuachyes ther as baners ben displayed.
1679. Apol. Maria Manchini, title-p., Madam Maria Manchini, Constabless of Colonna.
1832. Soc. Life Eng. & France, 232. Mary Mancini, the Constabless Colonna, the admired of Louis the Fourteenth.
