ambassadress

[ am-bas-uh-dris ]

/ æmˈbæs ə drɪs /

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a woman who is an ambassador.

the wife of an ambassador.

QUIZZES

In effect, this quiz will prove whether or not you have the skills to know the difference between “affect” and “effect.”

Question 1 of 7

The rainy weather could not ________ my elated spirits on my graduation day.

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

See -ess.

One of my secret seldom-expressed ambitions, even as a girl at College, was to be an Ambassadress.
A Journal from Japan|Marie Carmichael Stopes
Polly asked Davidge to retrieve her husband from the sloe-eyed ambassadress who was hypnotizing him.
The Cup of Fury|Rupert Hughes
I am come on a strange errand, monsieur; as an ambassadress, so to say, of those whom I fear you take to be your enemies.
The Inn at the Red Oak|Latta Griswold
Mrs. Page certainly embodied the traits most desirable in the Ambassadress of a great Republic.
The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume II|Burton J. Hendrick

When the "Ambassadress" came to live in Seville, all the young people had formed a court around her.
The Blood of the Arena|Vicente Blasco Ibez