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
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
Neither was the panegyric bestowed by the ambassadress on Madame d'Harville at all exaggerated.
From The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 1 of 6 by Eugène Sue
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