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empress

[em-pris] / ˈɛm prɪs /
NOUN
female ruler
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I had done so many things, but people probably knew me most for “Maleficent,” but it was then fun to be in “The Great” and I’m playing an empress, but she’s not the Disney version.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2026

This upcoming Spring/Summer 2026 season has been inspired by Vietnam's former ruling Nguyen dynasty, notably Emperor Khai Dinh and the last empress consort, Nam Phuong, who both lived under colonial French rule.

From Barron's ● Jan. 29, 2026

Among the stolen pieces was a large, diamond-encrusted bow brooch that belonged to the same empress.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2025

A crown of the empress Eugénie was left at the scene and is being examined to see if it is damaged.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2025

I felt like an empress on the way to school.

From "Kira-Kira" by Cynthia Kadohata

Recording from his home in Pasadena, he has played men and women of all ages, races, nationalities and abilities, as well as “postapocalyptic people living in trees and empresses of fictitious planets,” he notes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2025

For a long while in history, the women cheered in Canyon Of Heroes parades tended to be queens or princesses or empresses.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 8, 2019

I postponed my research on Sims, believing him to be an altruistic outlier who could be a balm in my distressing work: someone who, according to one statue’s inscription, treated “alike empresses and slaves”.

From Nature ● Sep. 17, 2017

Regent uncles, dowager empresses, concubines, brothers… all end up doing the wrong thing.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2012

The records of the empresses and of their female relatives exhibit a similarity to the scandalous accounts of their predecessors which is sadly monotonous and entirely unworthy of the otherwise wonderfully improved conditions.

From Roman Women by Alfred Brittain




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