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
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
"Pierre's clothes are perfect for women of any age," clued in the fashion ambassadress, herself wearing a loose-fitting Cardin suit that reached mid-knee.
From Time Magazine Archive
Several female attachés were added to the suite of the ambassadress, who forthwith departed to make a proper “dantica.”
From Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver by Mayer, Brantz
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