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Definition of Chiefess
1. a female chief [n -ES] - See also: chief
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chiefess
Literary usage of Chiefess
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Account of the Polynesian Race: Its Origins and Migrations, and the by Abraham Fornander, John F. G. Stokes (1880)
"... the sovereign chiefess of Kauai, and who was killed in a fruitless attempt to
recover the kingdom of Oahu by joining the insurgent chiefs under ..."
2. Legends of Old Honolulu by William Drake Westervell (1915)
"While they slept the chiefess gathered her people together until the enclosure
... In the morning Ikaika-loa, the chief, said to the chiefess: "I have heard ..."
3. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1897)
"Now Oberea was the great-great-grand-aunt of the old chiefess Arii ... The mother
of our old chiefess was known by at least thirteen different names, ..."
4. John La Farge, Artist and Writer by Cecilia Waern (1896)
"All now sung by these quiet, sad people in straw hats, gowns, and scarves, with
an occasional umbrella." . . . I have mentioned the chiefess ..."
5. The Warner Library by Charles Dudley Warner, Harry Morgan Ayres, John William Cunliffe, Helen Rex Keller, Gerhard Richard Lomer (1917)
"Now Oberea was the great-great-grand-aunt of the old chiefess Arii ... The mother
of our old chiefess was known by at least thirteen different names, ..."
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