reine

la reine (FR N-F) queen, the wife of a king, or the female sovereign of a country; chess piece second only to the king, but having powerful moves; woman who dominates others through her personal power; the single fertile female of a bee colony, (wasp or ant as well). First appears in French in 1080, from Latin regina. (Baudelaire, Carême, Cocteau, Klingsor, Leconte de Lisle, de Marès, d'Orléans, Vilmorin)