rare. [f. SWISS + -ESS.] A female Swiss; a Swiss woman or girl.
1793. A. C. Bower, Diaries & Corr. (1903), 144. She is a Swissess and speaks pretty broken English.
1818. Shelley, Lett., Pr. Wks. 1888, II. 241. A Mr. and Mrs. Hoppner, the gentleman an Englishman, and the lady a Swissesse.
