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Ambassadress   /æmbˈæsədrəs/   Listen
Ambassadress

noun
1.
A woman ambassador.






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"Ambassadress" Quotes from Famous Books



... the agitated Coningsby to the great lady, who was a Princess and an Ambassadress, and then, placing his arm gracefully in that of his grandson, he led him across the room, and presented him in due form to some royal blood that was his guest, in the shape of a Russian Grand Duke. His Imperial Highness received our hero as graciously as the grandson ...
— Some Diversions of a Man of Letters • Edmund William Gosse

... and intellectual. If I had been the dullest of the dull, I should have known that such a woman would not pass her life as a companion unless she had some wonderful end in view. She was far too brilliant. She would have made a good ambassadress, for she could make herself all things to all men. No matter what subject interested you, on that she could speak. She seemed to understand every one intuitively; one's likes, dislikes, tastes. She had a wondrous power of reading ...
— Coralie • Charlotte M. Braeme

... regard for them that they have for themselves. The little freedoms you tell me you use take off from formality, by avoiding which ridiculous extreme we are dwindled into the other barbarous one, rusticity. If you had been at Paris, I should have inquired about the new Spanish ambassadress, who, by the accounts we have thence, at her first audience of the queen, sat down with her at a distance ...
— Letters of Horace Walpole - Volume I • Horace Walpole



Words linked to "Ambassadress" :   ambassador, embassador



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