ambassatrix

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ambassatrix (plural ambassatrices)

  1. (rare) Ambassadress
    • 1877, Homer (C.B. Cayley, translator), The Iliad of Homer, page 397:
      Here Jove's ambassatrix enter' d, and softly to Priam Came and bespoke him, for alarm on his whole body fasten'd :
    • 2003, John Douglas Miller, The Greek Summer, page 175:
      Well, here she is now. Our little ambassatrix from the fountain head with my pink squirrel.
    • 2017, Lynda Schuster, Dirty Wars and Polished Silver: The Life and Times of a War Correspondent Turned Ambassatrix, →ISBN:
      (see title)