English
ambassadress
From ambassador + -ess.
A compound of ambassador + -ess
Proto-Indo-European *h₂m̥bʰi-h₂eǵ- ‘drive around’
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Old Occitan ambaisador ‘ambassador’
Old Italian ambassadore
Anglo-Norman ambassadeur
Middle English ambassadore
English ambassador
Today it means
noun A female ambassador.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / ambassadress