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Definition of Tigresses
1. tigress [n] - See also: tigress
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tigresses
Literary usage of Tigresses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Robert Armitage Sterndale (1884)
"I am indebted to Mr. Shillingford for a long list of tigresses with cubs killed
during the ... I have heard it asserted that tigresses are more common, ..."
2. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Samuel Johnson (1810)
"Thus Scythian tigresses the herd surround, And leap amidst them with a furious
... Thus Scythian tigresses] I know not "bother 1 need make an apology to the ..."
3. "Indian Game,": (from Quail to Tiger) by William Rice (1884)
"There appeared to be about two tigresses to every male tiger, judging by the sex of
... The young tigresses kept with the mothers until nearly full grown, ..."
4. Big Game Shooting by Clive Phillipps-Wolley (1894)
"Sanderson says that tigresses do not breed at any fixed season. Sterndale states
that they go with young for about fifteen weeks, and produce from two to ..."
5. Big Game Shooting by Clive Phillipps-Wolley (1894)
"Sanderson says that tigresses do not breed at any fixed season. Sterndale states
that they go with young for about fifteen weeks, and produce from two to ..."
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