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  • noun Plural form of ambassadress.

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Examples

  • The throne-room is immense, with marble columns down each side — all the men arranged on one side and all the women on the other, and the new presentations with their ambassadors and ambassadresses nearest the throne.

    The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton 2006

  • Five ambassadors and five ambassadresses were to be asked.

    The Way We Live Now 2004

  • Realizing the girl's rank, he returns at once to Kauai to fetch his five sweet-scented sisters to act as ambassadresses and bring him honor as a wooer.

    The Hawaiian Romance Of Laieikawai Martha Warren Beckwith 1915

  • He immediately took his seat on one side of the Marechale in front of the box, one of the ambassadresses, Princess Hohenlohe I think, next to him.

    My First Years As A Frenchwoman, 1876-1879 Waddington, Mary King 1914

  • There were one hundred and forty guests, no ladies except the royal princesses, not even the ambassadresses.

    My First Years As A Frenchwoman, 1876-1879 Waddington, Mary King 1914

  • She smiled constantly -- it was her rôle to be gracious to all these duchesses and ambassadresses -- and that solitary tooth darted forward like a sentinel on a bridge in the War Zone.

    The Living Present Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton 1902

  • The throne-room is immense, with marble columns down each side – all the men arranged on one side and all the women on the other, and the new presentations with their ambassadors and ambassadresses nearest the throne.

    The Romance of Isabel, Lady Burton William Henry Burton Wilkins 1897

  • There have been evenings at certain ambassadresses 'houses, and there was not a single one at which somebody living at Frankfort was not mentioned.

    Letters Liszt, Franz 1893

  • Friend represents this as an important point gained; and as the next step Pity and Frankness go as his ambassadresses to Danger, who allows

    The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) George Saintsbury 1889

  • There have been some soirees at the houses of certain ambassadresses, and there was not one in which mention was not made of some one who is at Frankfort.

    Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician Niecks, Frederick 1888

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