rare. [f. VIZIER.] A female vizier.
1878. [V. Durrant], A Modern Minister, II. xvii. 215. As Rogue-in-Chief the delicate and pleasant office fell to my lot the succeeding night of smuggling the fair Vizieress back again.
1884. J. Payne, Bk. of 1001 Nights, VIII. 340. The queen entreated Abdallah’s wife with honour and bestowed favours on her and made her her vizieress.
1918. H. G. Wells, Joan & Peter, v. 96. Her chief pleasure was to feel all right and important and the centre of things, and to that her maid as a sort of grand Vizieress, her well-disciplined little household and her choice of friends ministered.
