[F., fem, of suzerain SUZERAIN.] A woman who is in the position of a suzerain.
1838. Morning Herald (N.Y.), 27 Feb., 4/3. We hold it to be our duty to conform to the behests of our fair suzeraines.
1880. Disraeli, Endym., I. v. 45. The wife of the minister was careful always to acknowledge the Queen of Fashion as her suzeraine.
1881. Earl of Lytton, in 19th Cent., Nov., 769. The Donna or Domina of the Troubadour was the suzeraine of a vassalage which really existed in the social system of his time.
