[VICE-.] a. A woman ruling as the representative of a queen.
b. The wife of a viceroy. (Cf. VICEREINE.)
1578. T. N., trans. Conq. W. India (1596), 7. His mother and three sisters … came to the Iland of Santo Domingo, with that vicequeene the Lady Mary of Toledo.
1628–9. Digby, Voy. Medit. (Camden), 77. I … sent some letters to the Vicequeene of Sardinia.
1667. Lond. Gaz., No. 221/3. Naples, Dec., 13…. The next day the Vice-Roy went incognito to visit him, which was the day after returned him by the Cardinal: who paid also his complements to the Vice Queen.
1749. Smollett, Gil Blas, III. ix. Heavens! what luxury and magnificence! I believed myself in the palace of a vice-queen.
1796. Nelson, 28 Sept., in Nicolas, Disp. (1845), II. 284. If the Enemy land near Bastia, the Vice-Queen’s Yatch may be useful.
1842. Miss Mitford, in L’Estrange, Life (1870), III. ix. 139. Think of … the vice-queen of Portugal labouring as a bookseller’s drudge.
1894. Dublin Rev., Oct., 463. A great Roman lady, who played the part of a vice-queen in Judea.
