snow-leopardess

Noun

snow leopardess (plural snow leopardesses)

1. A female snow leopard.
   • Those were minor variations. Beneath them, no one need tell him, was an extremely determined individual. On that distant morning he had thought she had much in common with a snow leopardess, one of his worst similes. He wondered if anyone had tried to tame her since Gerin died. She was not the sort...1970, Simon Harvester, Moscow Road, New York, N.Y.: Walker and Company, published 1971, →ISBN, page 86