Definition of "empresse" [empresse]

• See impress.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Circester, and there assembled all those that fauoured the part of the empresse, meaning with all conuenient spéed to go to Oxford, & there to giue battell to king Stephan, if he would abide it."
• "Note 38: W. Camden, Annales the true and royall history of the famous empresse Elizabeth, Queene of England ..."
• "Moreouer, when the great emperor Can sitteth in his imperiall throne of estate, on his left hand sitteth his queene or empresse, and vpon another inferior seate there sit two other women, which are to accompany the emperor, when his spouse is absent, but in the lowest place of all, there sit all the ladies of his kindred."