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empress

[em-pris] / ˈɛm prɪs /
NOUN
female ruler
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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

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

The state visit to the UK by the emperor and empress of Japan will go ahead later this month, says Buckingham Palace.

From BBC Jun. 3, 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

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

As explained earlier, a few empresses wielded great power.

From Textbooks Jan. 1, 2012

A few elegant but less spacious rooms were interesting from having been the private apartments of the poor queens and empresses who have shared the throne of France.

From An American Girl Abroad by Adeline Trafton




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