covess

== English == === Etymology === From cove (“man”) +‎ -ess. === Noun === covess (plural covesses) (archaic, UK) A woman. ==== Synonyms ==== See Thesaurus:woman === References === John S[tephen] Farmer; W[illiam] E[rnest] Henley, compilers (1891), “covess”, in Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present. […], volume II, [London: […] Harrison and Sons] […], →OCLC, page 194. === Anagrams === scoves