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Definition of Leopardesses
1. leopardess [n] - See also: leopardess
Lexicographical Neighbors of Leopardesses
Literary usage of Leopardesses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1876)
"Even Zoe and Fanny had turned from lambs to leopardesses. Patches of red on each
cheek, and eyes like red-hot coals. The colours had begun to run, ..."
2. Black Sheep: Adventures in West Africa by Jean Kenyon Mackenzie (1916)
"... and the poor pretty yellow girls that look at you from under the thatched
eaves were leopardesses. There for generations the animal passions of men have ..."
3. Longman's Magazine by Charles James Longman (1886)
"But mothers, like leopardesses, know the spots upon their children which cannot
be changed any more than the skin of the Ethiopian. ..."
4. The Old Showmen, and the Old London Fairs by Thomas Frost (1874)
"... time four lions and a lioness, two leopardesses, with cubs, a hyena, a bitch
wolf and cubs, a polar bear, a pair of zebras, two onagers or wild asses, ..."
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