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ambassadress

American  
[am-bas-uh-dris] / æmˈbæs ə drɪs /

noun

  1. a woman who is an ambassador.

  2. the wife of an ambassador.


Gender

What's the difference between ambassadress and ambassador? See -ess.

Etymology

Origin of ambassadress

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

Example Sentences

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One was a friend of my mother’s who was an ambassadress.

From Washington Post Dec. 15, 2015

Makeup artist Genevieve Herr was the one responsible for giving the Lancôme ambassadress her radiant, natural skin.

From Forbes Aug. 26, 2014

The film begins as a Cambodian counterespionage agent, played by Sihanouk, waits at the port of Sihanoukville to greet a lovely Latin American ambassadress, played by Sihanouk's half-Cambodian, half-Italian wife, Princess Monique.

From Time Magazine Archive

Each new Eurythmics video presented a new Annie: the vamp, the gigolo, the ambassadress from another planet.

From Time Magazine Archive

During her brother's reign, Zhinga was sent as ambassadress to Loanda, to negotiate terms of peace with the Portuguese.

From An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans by Child, Lydia Maria Francis

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