pharaohess
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4ADJ.
all
VERB + PHARAOHESS
honours, wanted
PHARAOHESS + NOUN
berenice, daughter
ADV.
always, naturally
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noun
A female pharaoh.
[The priests decided] to pay everlasting honours to the Pharaohess Berenice, / the daughter of the Gods, the Well-doers, in all the temples of Egypt.
Writer-Director Joseph L. Mankiewicz (All About Eve) announced that his version of Cleopatra, which stars Elizabeth Taylor (naturally; who is Pharaohess of them all?), would be considerably different from Shaw’s Caesar and Cleopatra.
The wife of a pharaoh.
Balancing four boxes on her head, she mounted the stairs, telling herself that she was a slave-girl in ancient Egypt carrying stone blocks for the great pyramid. When she reached the first floor she removed both the wrap and the sandals to add authentic local colour and so that she was a genuine naked Nubian slave-girl whose slinky walk quickened the blood of the Pharaoh, who, encountered by chance on the landing, promptly asked her to be his fair Pharaohess and Queen of Upper and Lower Egypt.
“Unless you want to be his new bride by tomorrow, Ashley Porter, we’re outta here! And soon, kiddo, or you’ll be the latest Pharaohess! Mrs. Tutankhamun by morning.”
noun
Alternative letter-case form of pharaohess.
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3[The priests decided] to pay everlasting honours to the Pharaohess Berenice, / the daughter of the Gods, the Well-doers, in all the temples of Egypt.
WiktionaryWriter-Director Joseph L. Mankiewicz (All About Eve) announced that his version of Cleopatra, which stars Elizabeth Taylor (naturally; who is Pharaohess of them all?), would be considerably different
WiktionaryHere, too, are the same associations of old and new as, in “the sole irrhythm,” he describes his woman’s long neck and proud nose as “the way i always wanted/that pharaohess to me / to be hawk boned,”
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