Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A female dragon.
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- noun rare A female
dragon (especially when used figuratively.)
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Examples
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He just leaned over and looked at the dragoness-and the smoke issuing from her mouth sank like chill fog to the floor.
Falcon Street 2010
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Oh, and when I say "my mom" here, I of course mean my birth mother and not the dragoness who raised me in the Fairy Woods.
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The dragoness winced; she would have a tedious cleanup chore to do.
Falcon Street 2010
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Oh, and when I say "my mom" here, I of course mean my birth mother and not the dragoness who raised me in the Fairy Woods.
Archive 2008-09-01 2008
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After the punishment of Telphusa for her deceit in giving him no warning of the dragoness at Pytho, Apollo, in the form of a dolphin, brings certain Cretan shipmen to Delphi to be his priests; and the hymn ends with a charge to these men to behave orderly and righteously.
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Straightway large-eyed queenly Hera took him and bringing one evil thing to another such, gave him to the dragoness; and she received him.
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Whosoever met the dragoness, the day of doom would sweep him away, until the lord Apollo, who deals death from afar, shot a strong arrow at her.
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So the following morning the dragoness took hold of the young man and reached down from the shelf a sharp knife with which to kill him.
The Pink Fairy Book 2003
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The dragoness had been darkening his almost white eyebrows.
Second Wind Francis, Dick 1999
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But the dragoness had been paying close attention to the zaps.
Dragon on a Pedestal Anthony, Piers 1983
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