leopardess
Americannoun
Gender
See -ess.
Etymology
Origin of leopardess
Example Sentences
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Nature The new episode “The Leopard Legacy” relates the family saga of a powerful leopardess that rules over a large realm along the Luangwa River of Zambia.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2021
The leopardess flirted by flicking her tail in the face of her mate until he sprang with fang and claw, snarling, whirling.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ariel could not combat a leopardess; Ithuriel's spear glances pointless from a rhinoceros' hide.
From Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida by Ouida
She was certainly a very beautiful woman, tall, exquisitely formed, lithe and graceful as a leopardess.
From Wives and Widows; or The Broken Life by Stephens, Ann S. (Ann Sophia)
So the next day the leopardess lay in wait and the jackal and the cubs beat the jungle; when they came up they found that the leopardess had killed a fine deer.
From Folklore of the Santal Parganas by Bompas, Cecil Henry
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