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
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
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
During her brother's reign, Zhinga was sent as ambassadress to Loanda, to negotiate terms of peace with the Portuguese.
From An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans by Child, Lydia Maria Francis
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