rare. [f. as prec- + -ESS.] The wife of a baronet.
1652. Brome, Damoiselle, I. ii. My Daughter here, that was, But now a Barronetesse in Reversion.
1878. F. Williams, Midl. Railw., 453. The ghost of one Lady Bolles, a ‘baronetess,’ the only one ever made. [A sense due only to popular error.]
