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
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)
I had remembered only you, Antoine, and Navarre, and the clean-eyed Navarrese—” Now for a little, Jehane paced the gleaming and sun-drenched apartment as a bright leopardess might tread her cage.
From Chivalry by Cabell, James Branch
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
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