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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

Mado Robin, 35, a petite ambassadress from the Paris Opera, opened the season as Gilda in Verdi's Rigoletto, determined not to go unnoticed.

From Time Magazine Archive

America loved Grandma Moses as the representative of natural virtue�the ambassadress of a past that was al ready being sentimentalized on an industrial scale.

From Time Magazine Archive

Taddeo, whose devotion to the Neapolitan ambassadress constantly increased, visited her every day, and went nowhere else.

From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, September, 1851 by Various