† embassatrixn.
Obsolete. rare.
A female ambassador; = ambassadress n. 1. Cf. ambassatrix n.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > international politics or relations > diplomacy > [noun] > ambassador or envoy > resident ambassador > wife of
embassadress1641
ambassadress1663
ambassadrice1677
embassatrix1728
1728 J. B. Grano Diary 30 Nov. in J. Ginger Handel's Trumpeter (1998) 148 He sent his Embassatrix to me to desire the favour of me to lend him Money.
a1734 R. North Examen (1740) iii. vi. 479 Here was..an Embassatrix resident to pursue the Point of raising the Grandeur of France.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2019).
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