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- noun Plural form of
leopardess .
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Examples
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The moon was bright, and in a moment our trees glittered with staring little eyes, watching two huge leopardesses, one perfectly white, the other covered with black spots, which worried and tore each other with I do not know how many teeth and claws.
Lilith, a romance George MacDonald 1864
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-- Some say the princess has two white leopardesses, "she continued:" I know only one -- with spots.
Lilith, a romance George MacDonald 1864
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Little Ones had not forgotten the fight of the two leopardesses in the forest: some of them looked terrified, and their ranks began to waver; but they remembered the order I had just given them, and stood fast.
Lilith, a romance George MacDonald 1864
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