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empress Noun 1. a woman who rules an empire 2. the wife or widow of an emperor [Latin imperatrix]
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 Translations empress [ˈɛmprɪs] n → emperatriz f empress [ˈɛmprɪs] n → impératrice f empress [ˈɛmprɪs] n → Kaiserin f empress [ˈɛmprɪs] n → imperatrice f |
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It was in July, 1805, and the speaker was the well-known Anna Pavlovna Scherer, maid of honor and favorite of the Empress Marya Fedorovna. But glowing with rage, the King commanded to seize the criminal and lead him to death, who had ventured to dance, with the queen; so disgraced the Empress, and insulted the crown. Bananas with their great ragged leaves, like the tattered habiliments of an empress in adversity, grew close up to the house. |
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empress - a woman emperor or the wife of an emperor
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