lady abbess

Definition

A bawd, the mistress of a brothel.

Example Sentences

• "That Lady Abbess of all secret sin. / Swears that she is so lean and ugly grown, / She will not pass with her for half a crown, / Yet Stamford's countess does admire her wit, / But likes it most because 'tis lewdly writ."
• "The Lady Abbess took leave of her young Probationer, to dispatch some affairs of her own elsewhere; having promised to return next morning about the same Hour she had done that day."
• "This is our College, Madam; and these are the Students: Or rather, Madam, this is a Nunnery, and I am Lady Abbess."