countesse

Noun

1. Obsolete spelling of countess.
   • There were then alſo preſent (to honor the Infanta) the Counteſſe of Mansfeldt, daughter to the Earle of Egmond, the Counteſſe of Aremberghe, the Marqueſſe of Berghen, the Counteſſe of Egmont, the Counteſſes of...
   • Queene Mary had her education for ſome yeares vnder Margaret Counteſſe of Salisbury the Mother of Poole (who was then a childe) and that by Queene Catharines meanes, who intended (as it was thought) to marry her...
   • Beſides, this is a Counteſſe; and when your Counteſſes are Waiting-women, ’tis either to Queens or Empreſſes, who in their houſes are moſt abſolute, and are ſerved by other Wayting-women. - 1652, The History of the...