ambassadress

American  

[am-bas-uh-dris] / æmˈbæs ə drɪs /

noun

1. a woman who is an ambassador.

2. the wife of an ambassador.

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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

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

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

It is terrible," said the ambassadress, "public rumor said so—I, though, live so much alone that I know nothing more.

From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, August, 1851 by Various