[f. ALBIN-O + -ESS; cf. negro, negress.] A female albino.
1808. T. S. Traill, On Albinoes, in Phil. Trans., XIX. 85. Her mother’s first child, a girl, is also an albiness … the fifth, a boy, is an albino.
1852. Cassell’s Pop. Educ., II. 76/2. If an Albino marry an Albiness, etc.
1858. O. W. Holmes, Aut. Breakf.-t. (1865), 72. Negative or washed blondes, arrested by nature on the way to become albinesses.
