单词 | ambassadress |
释义 | ambassadressn. 1. A female ambassador (in various senses of ambassador n.); esp. a female personal messenger or representative. Cf. embassadress n. 1.In quot. 1598 with reference to the dawn, personified. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > international politics or relations > diplomacy > [noun] > ambassador or envoy > female embassadress1594 ambassadress1598 ambassatrix1616 ambassatrice1625 ambassadrix1662 1598 R. Carew Herrings Tayle sig. A2 Dame Aurora now faithfull Ambassadresse Of the new borne day. 1664 J. Howell Προεδρια-Βασιλικη iv. 195 It was thought fit to send the Duchess as Ambassadress to the Emperours Camp. 1795 E. Fenwick Secresy III. xv. 137 This scrupulous lady again chuses to send her pretty ambassadress on private business to Montgomery. 1892 W. S. Lilly Great Enigma 114 No reasonable man would receive Mrs. Guppy as an ambassadress from the Infinite and Eternal. 1960 Guardian 19 Apr. 2/5 The Princess had led the world's hair-styling fashion. She had been ‘an ambassadress’ of British hair-styling. 2007 E. Donoghue Landing 306 She'd be perfectly willing to go to England as ambassadress—if she was allowed to take with her twenty or so of her intimate friends. 2. The wife of an ambassador (ambassador n. 2). Cf. embassadress n. 2. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > international politics or relations > diplomacy > [noun] > ambassador or envoy > resident ambassador > wife of embassadress1641 ambassadress1663 ambassadrice1677 embassatrix1728 1663 S. Tuke Adventures of Five Hours i. 7 I was..treated by th' Ambassadress, my Cozin, With more respect than I could ever merit. 1777 E. Gibbon Let. 24 July (1956) II. 156 I have likewise seen a great deal of the Sardinian Ambassadress whom you have formerly known..under the name of Miss Speed. 1880 B. Disraeli Endymion I. xxxiii. 305 Not only an ambassador, but an ambassadress..had been asked to meet them. 1999 K. Hickman Daughters of Britannia (2000) v. 110 The ambassadresses..are now all vying with each other in the earthquake victims fundraising stakes. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1598 |
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