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Meanings of empress (empresses) in English
Fairy chess piece that can move like a rook or a knight.
Usage of empresses in English
1
Elegantly dressed Guan Yins marched abreast with sumptuously attired emperors, empresses, and lords.
2
It was clearly the man's business to know empresses by sight.
3
Roman emperors were famous for their sexual prowess, even while marrying single empresses.
4
The empresses who embraced the cross converted sons and husbands.
5
Even empresses and queens do not dress as they do.
6
Papal Rome never greatly loved Byzantine empresses or French queens.
7
Those four ladies are called empresses, but each is distinguished also by her proper name.
8
The two present empresses have made those virtues beloved, of which they are themselves the models.
9
For almost the whole of the seventy years after Peter's death, Russia was governed by empresses.
10
He has met the ministers of the two angry empresses, and pacified Russian savageness and Austrian haughtiness.
11
The two empresses had asserted their predominance.
12
The empresses had retired into private life, and for a time their regency came to an end.
13
Why do ye persecute her, ye empresses?
14
They wore officers' uniforms and mostly wrote odes for the accession of German empresses onto the Russian throne.
15
The Wang, an old Shansi family, had already provided two empresses, and was therefore strongly represented at court.
16
She was the longest living of all of the empresses in the oldest hereditary monarchy in the world.
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