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
This was a Joan 115 he had not yet realized, and he knew that after all his enchanted leopardess was a woman and that his wooing of her had hardly yet begun.
From The Branding Iron by Burt, Katharine Newlin
His encounter, therefore, with Mrs. Lee presented the distressing spectacle of an old, toothless, mumbling mastiff, fighting for the household to which he owed allegiance against a young leopardess fresh from the forests.
From Autobiographical Sketches by De Quincey, Thomas
Besieged in Maupertuis by Noble, Renard sends a flattering love letter to each of his old flames, the lioness, the wolf, and the leopardess.
From Women of Mediæval France Woman: in all ages and in all countries Vol. 5 (of 10) by Butler, Pierce
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