trayteresse

Middle English

Noun

trayteresse (plural trayteresses)

  1. A traitoress, a female traitor.
    • c. 1370s. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Romaunt of the Rose. 620-3
      The trayteresse fals and ful of gyle,
      That al behoteth and no-thing halt,
      She goth upryght and yet she halt,
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