ambassadress

[am-bas-uh-dris]

noun

a woman who is an ambassador.
the wife of an ambassador.

Origin of ambassadress

First recorded in 1585–95; ambassad(o)r + -ess

Usage note

See -ess.

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Historical Examples of ambassadress

Was I wrong in declining to have mademoiselle Guimard as ambassadress?
Memoirs of the Comtesse du Barry
Etienne Leon Lamothe-Langon
By the side of the Ambassadress was a tall, fashionable, haughty beauty.
The Life of Florence Nightingale vol. 1 of 2
Edward Tyas Cook
Who will give the odds that we do not again see her an ambassadress?
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 67, No. 416, June 1850
Various
After a little hesitation she said it had been exactly that of the French ambassadress.
Human Intercourse
Philip Gilbert Hamerton
More than his ambassadress to the tzin, she bore his prophecy to the generations of the future.
The Fair God
Lew Wallace