[f. prec. + -ESS.] A female archer.
1646. Fanshawe, Pastor Fido, 143 (T.). To thee I recommend it (O Archeresse eternall).
1791. Cowper, Iliad, XXI. 569. But thus the consort of the Thund’rer … reproved the Archeress of heaven.
1876. Geo. Eliot, Dan. Der., I. x. 73. Miss Arrowpoint was one of the best archeresses.
