chieftess

Etymology
An irregular form from or.

Noun

 * : a female chieftain or the wife of a chief.
 * 1) * "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.
 * 2) * (title of a 1913 film from New Zealand)