"chieftess" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "An irregular form from chief or chieftain + -ess.",
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      "form": "chieftesses",
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  "pos": "noun",
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          "text": "\"This heroine was ever after treated by her nation as their deliverer, and made a chieftess in her own right, with the liberty to entail the same honour on her descendants ...\" New travels among the Indians of North America, William Fisher, ed., p. 294; attributed to Rev. J. Hubbard. http://books.google.com/books?id=xcIRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA294&dq=chieftess&hl=en&ei=lUkqTMDcDsL58AaetZ3SCA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCYQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false"
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          "text": "Loved by a Maori Chieftess (title of a 1913 film from New Zealand)"
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        "Synonym of chieftainess: a female chieftain or the wife of a chief."
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  "etymology_text": "An irregular form from chief or chieftain + -ess.",
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          "text": "\"This heroine was ever after treated by her nation as their deliverer, and made a chieftess in her own right, with the liberty to entail the same honour on her descendants ...\" New travels among the Indians of North America, William Fisher, ed., p. 294; attributed to Rev. J. Hubbard. http://books.google.com/books?id=xcIRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA294&dq=chieftess&hl=en&ei=lUkqTMDcDsL58AaetZ3SCA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCYQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false"
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          "text": "Loved by a Maori Chieftess (title of a 1913 film from New Zealand)"
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