dogess meaning: definition, etymology and quotations

dogess

noun

Etymology From doge + -ess. Doublet of dogaressa and duchess.

Synonym of dogaressa (“wife of a doge”).

The Reflecter, without citing his Author for it, pretends, that no Dogeſs can be Crowned, and that the Inquiſitors made a Decree againſt it.1688, Animadversions on the Reflections upon Dr. B’s Travels, page 41:
The Dogeſſes are excluded from having any ſhare in thoſe ſhadows of Honour which are paid to their Husbands, which is an Effect of the Frugality of the Government; and indeed, the Republick has no need of two Mock-Soveraigns.1695, “Letter XXIII.”, in A New Voyage to Italy, with a Description of the Chief Towns, Churches, Tombs, Libraries, Palaces, Statues, and Antiquities of that Country. […], volume II, London: […] R. Bentley, […], translation of [Nouveau voyage d’Italie: avec un mémoire contenant des avis utiles à ceux qui voudront faire le mesme voyage] by Maximilian Misson, page 5:

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The Palace of the Republick, or the Publick Palace, call’d Palazzo Reale, is extreamly large. Here the Doge and Dogeſs lodge, and two or three Senators, with their Families, beſides ſome inferior Officers of the State.1714, “Letter XXXV.”, in A New Voyage to Italy. With Curious Observations on several Other Countries; […], the fourth edition, volume II, London: […] R[ebecca] Bonwicke, […], translation of [Nouveau voyage d’Italie: avec un mémoire contenant des avis utiles à ceux qui voudront faire le mesme voyage] by [Maximilien Misson], page 374:
In the Churches of St. Paul and St. John are Pictures very much eſteem’d by the Connoiſſeurs; and there’s the ſumptuous Tomb of the Valerios, where the Father, the Mother, with the Son, are carv’d in their natural Proportion in Marble, apparell’d in the Habit of the Doge and Dogeſs.1737, “Letter XXV.”, in The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Being the Observations He made in his late Travels from Prussia thro’ […], volume I, London: […] Daniel Browne, […], translation of [Memoires du Baron de Pollnitz, contenant les Observations qu’il a faites dans ses Voyages] by Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz [i.e., Karl Ludwig von Pöllnitz], page 405:
Doge, the revenues of his office rarely anſwer the expences of it, ib. / the ancient families not fond of accepting it, ib. / the concern of a dogeſs upon her huſband’s election, 951764, Edward Wright, “A General Alphabetical Index to Both Volumes”, in Some Observations Made in Travelling through France, Italy, &c. in the Years mdccxx, mdccxxi, and mdccxxii, the second edition, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, […], column 2:
Procession of a Dogess of Venice, P[aolo]. Veronese;1809, David Hughson, “Circuit of London”, in London; Being an Accurate History and Description of the British Metropolis and Its Neighbourhood, to Thirty Miles Extent, from an actual Perambulation, volume VI, London: […] W. Stratford, […], for J. Stratford, […], section “East Saloon, next the Dome”, page 531: