papess

French papesse.

papess (plural papesses)

1. (obsolete) A female pope, i.e. the fictitious Pope Joan.
   • 1620, Joseph Hall, The Honour of the Married Clergy:

     Was the history of that their monstrous Papess of our making?

• papissa (rare)
• popess

• “papess”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.