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
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
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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
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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
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