ambassadress
AmericanGender
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
But the ambassadress must leave, and she flies off into the twilight as the hero stands at mournful attention on the airstrip.
From Time Magazine Archive
His wife may manage to be presented at court under the wing of the American ambassadress, but that is nothing!
From Ten Years Near the German Frontier A Retrospect and a Warning by Egan, Maurice Francis
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