giantess
nounUS, UK /ˈd͡ʒaɪəntɛs/
Etymology From Middle English geauntesse, geaunesse, from Old French; equivalent to giant + -ess.
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Fantasy, Human sciences, Mysticism, Mythology, Philosophy, Sciences A female giant.
- He spide far off a mighty Giauntesse / Fast flying, on a Courser dapled gray […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- In the corner lay against the wall a stringed instrument not unlike a dulcimer, which, as people believe, the Giantesses used to play on.1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 218:
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- The giantess picked him up and gave him such a squeeze that he felt he was going to choke.1926, Enid Blyton, The Book of Brownies:
- The giantesses lift arms like the trunks of sycamores, each finger tipped with an amaranthine talon.1981, Gene Wolfe, chapter VIII, in The Claw of the Conciliator (The Book of the New Sun; 2), New York: Timescape, →ISBN, page 72: