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ambassades

ambassades is the plural of ambassade.

Meaning of ambassade

Noun

ambassade (plural ambassades)

  1. (obsolete) The mission of an ambassador.
    • Sir Henry Killigrew, after Ambaſſades and meſſages, and many other employments of peace and warre, in his Princes ſeruice, to the good of his Countrey, hath made choyce of a retyred eſtate1609, Richard Carew, The Survey of Cornwall, London: […] S[imon] S[tafford] for Iohn Iaggard, […], →OCLC
  2. (obsolete) An embassy.
    • […] thereupon the queen's majesty, trusting that the king of Spain was of the same mind, she did send a solemn ambassade of her privy-counsellors, whereof one was an ancient earl of the realm, the other also an ancient baron of the same, and others of the council of her state […]1709-1725, John Strype, Annals of the Reformation in England

Questions about ambassades

What is ambassades the plural of?
Ambassades is the plural of ambassade.

Words near ambassades in the dictionary

  1. Ambashthas
  2. ambasilide
  3. Ambasing
  4. ambass
  5. ambassade
  6. ambassades
  7. ambassadonor
  8. ambassadonors
  9. ambassador
  10. ambassador animal
  11. ambassador animals

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