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lioness
[ lahy-uh-nis ]
noun
- a female lion.
lioness
/ ˈlaɪənɪs /
noun
- a female lion
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I was expecting this timid little-bird kiss, like a little peck, but she was like a lioness—she practically ate my head off!
And that sense of the lioness in winter may account for the softening views of Hillary.
Chris Lee reviews her posthumous song collection Lioness: Hidden Treasures.
But Lioness holds many unexpected pleasures even for people who do not self-identify as Winehouse completists.
A Lioness plays dumb in life, too, disarming others in business, if not in love, where she prefers “cat and mouse.”
And say: Why did thy mother the lioness lie down among the lions, and bring up her whelps in the midst of young lions?
They know that I am a lioness defending her young, and that I alone prevent their daring hands from seizing your crown.
A lioness died, and left two little lion-cubs with no one to take care of them.
The female, like the lioness, however, produces four or five cubs at a time.
He was a young British army officer who was mauled by a lioness several months ago in Somaliland.
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