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Definition of Lionesses
1. lioness [n] - See also: lioness
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lionesses
Literary usage of Lionesses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. On Safari: Big Game Hunting in British East Africa, with Studies in Bird-life by Abel Chapman (1908)
"All three lionesses were dragged out of the covert by our " boys," and laid in a row
... I measured the two lionesses with which I was personally concerned. ..."
2. Italy: With Sketches of Spain and Portugal by William Beckford (1835)
"The Egyptian lionesses. — Illuminations. Rome, 29th June 1782. IT is needless
for me to say I wish you with me: you know I do; you know how delightfully we ..."
3. The English Illustrated Magazine (1897)
"... was answering in the affirmative, and I trembled lest they might ask for an
explanation of the lameness with which one of the lionesses was afflicted. ..."
4. The Analytical Hebrew and Chaldee Lexicon: Consisting of an Alphabetical ...by Benjamin Davidson by Benjamin Davidson (1848)
"... (house of lionesses) pr. name of a town in the tribe of Simeon, Jos. 19.6.
«(37 lion ; according to others, lioness. ..."
5. Venezuela: Or, Sketches of Life in a South American Republic: with the by Edward B. Eastwick (1868)
"Erminia—Break of Day at Valencia—Showing a Visitor the lionesses—A Creole
Beauty—Love at first ... lionesses ..."
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