governoress noun3 •(old-fashioned) A female governor.I was introduced by Mrs. Onward, the Governoress, to Mrs. Sapient, the Speakeress of the House. — 1869 •(nonstandard) A woman employed to educate children in private households.It took a firm governoress, boarding school and a finishing school to get rid of the rough edges — and, by her late teens, the young Princess [Alexandra] was emerging as a beautiful and serene woman. — 1986 •(old-fashioned) The wife of a governor.Colonel Braddyll, soon after his marriage, was chosen governor of ⸺, in India, and Mrs. Braddyll, as governoress, or governor’s lady, was in the height of her glory. — 1820 formsgovernoresses
