Obs. Also Æthiopesse. [f. prec. + -ESS, after L. Æthiopissa (Vulg. Num. xii.), Gr. Αἰθιόπισσα (LXX.).] A female Ethiopian.
[1382. Wyclif, Numb. xii. 1. The Ethiopis his wijf.]
1614. Raleigh, Hist. World, I. 126. Josephus his Tale of an Æthiopesse wife of Moses.
1640. A. Harsnet, God’s Summ., 272. Moses, although he married an Ethiopesse, yet could hee not change her hue, nor make her white.
