empress
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A Tang dynasty empress is believed to have sent two to Japan in the seventh century.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 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
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
Her climb from lifestyle author to homemaking empress, along with her fall and brief imprisonment, spawned endless special reports, gossip columns, parodies, and unauthorized biographies both serious and salacious.
From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2024
Illustriousness was a word she’d once heard in a film where people kept addressing a grand empress.
From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi
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
The organisation has close ties with the imperial family, with previous empresses serving as honorary presidents.
From BBC ● Jan. 23, 2024
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
As explained earlier, a few empresses wielded great power.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2012
The result of this conflict of opinion between the rival empresses was that the policy of Theodosius was always wavering; he was consistent neither in orthodoxy nor heterodoxy.
From Women of Early Christianity by Alfred Brittain
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