sergeantess

noun

1. (dated)A female sergeant.

   “Mrs. Taradoodle,Sergeantess at Mace.”

   “Ordered, That the Sergeanteſs at Arms, attending this House, do forthwith go with the Mace, to ſummon all the Members to attend the Service of this Houſe on Tueſday next.”

   “They have regular recruiting sergeants and sergeantesses, whom they send out to lie in wait for the unwary, and after intoxicating them with the poison of superstition, induce them to enlist.”

   “This sister, who, we were told, bore the title and rank of sergeantess (sargenta), possessed the remains of great beauty, and her (probably) forty summers had not injured her commanding and graceful figure.”

   “Imagine Sam. going down Broadway some afternoon with a captainess in front of him, a lieutenantess on either side of him, and a sergeantess in the rear!”