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ambassadress

[ am-bas-uh-dris ]

noun

  1. a woman who is an ambassador.
  2. the wife of an ambassador.


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Gender Note

What's the difference between ambassadress and ambassador? See -ess.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of ambassadress1

First recorded in 1585–95; ambassad(o)r + -ess

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Example Sentences

One of my secret seldom-expressed ambitions, even as a girl at College, was to be an Ambassadress.

Polly asked Davidge to retrieve her husband from the sloe-eyed ambassadress who was hypnotizing him.

I am come on a strange errand, monsieur; as an ambassadress, so to say, of those whom I fear you take to be your enemies.

Mrs. Page certainly embodied the traits most desirable in the Ambassadress of a great Republic.

When the "Ambassadress" came to live in Seville, all the young people had formed a court around her.

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