tigress

From French tigresse, corresponding to tiger +‎ -ess.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtaɪ.ɡɹɪs/, /ˈtaɪ.ɡɹəs/

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tigress (plural tigresses)

1. A female tiger; a she-tiger.
   • 1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., →OCLC; republished as chapter IV, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, part II, number 12, New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, March 1927, →OCLC, page 1164, column 1:

     So-al was a mighty fine-looking girl, built like a tigress as to strength and sinuosity, but withal sweet and womanly.

   • 2006 June 10, Stephen Holden, “Fabled Feline Charms, in Fine Working Order”, in The New York Times‎:

     Indestructibly seductive at 79, this greatest and wittiest of all singing tigresses has lasted even longer on the stage than the original glamorous grandmother, Marlene Dietrich.

• “tigress”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “tigress”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

• Griests, Stigers, striges