ˈmem+ˌ- noun
Etymology: Hindi mem-ṣāḥib, from English mem (II) + Hindi ṣāḥib — more at sahib
: a foreign woman of the white race and some social status living in India
growing up to be another nice infuriating superior English memsahib — H.E.Bates
especially : the wife of an English official or other white man of some social status in colonial India
found the white memsahibs more violently intoxicated with … race poison than their men — Edmond Taylor
this is a memsahib's book, recalling … the last years of that ascendancy in India — Times Literary Supplement
houses designed for British officials and their memsahibs — Christopher Rand