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ambassadress|æmˈbæsədrɪs|
Also emb-.
[f. ambassador + -ess. Varied with forms in -drice, -drix, -trice, -trix.]
1. A female ambassador or messenger.
[1577–87Holinsh. Chr. III. 910/1 The two ladies ambassadors of the king of England, sitting in great estate.] 1594Carew tr. Tasso (1881) 53 Dawnyng th' Embassadresse was ris'ne from bed, Tydings to beare, how now grey morne annies. 1600Chapman Iliad iii. 126 Iris, the Rainbow, then came down, ambassadress from heaven. 1703Rowe Fair Penit. i. i. 213 Well, my Embassadress, what must we treat of? 1755Croker Ariosto's Orl. Fur. xxxii. cx, Near to her th' embassadress did rise. 1761Smollett Gil Blas (1802) I. iv. ii. 331 She..bad her ambassadress retire into another room. 1847Tennyson Princess iii. 187 Are you ambassadresses From him to me?
2. The wife of an ambassador (leger) 2.
1716Lady M. Montague Lett. I. xxxi. 107 The French Ambassadress agreed with me as to his good mien. 1777Gibbon Misc. Wks. (1814) II. 209, I cannot quite determine whether I shall sup at Madame Necker's or the Sardinian Ambassadress's. 1880Disraeli Endym. I. xxxiii. 305 Not only an ambassador, but an ambassadress..had been asked to meet them. |