Definition of "senatress"
senatress
noun
plural senatresses
Quotations
Heliogabalus introduced his Mother into the Senate, and she took her Place there by the Seats of the Consuls, and was present at passing a Decree of the Senate. This Emperor made the first Senatress; he created a little Senate of Women, which met on Collis Quirinalis under the Direction of Semiamira, and the Laws they made concerning the Ladies, ....
1731, Thornhagh Gurdon, The History of the High Court of Parliament, page 200