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Leopardess   Listen
noun
leopardess  n.  A female leopard.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Leopardess" Quotes from Famous Books



... languidly, carelessly, as if already weary. Above her head she swung copper bells, castanets or 'crotals,'—swung them lazily, so that they tinkled very faintly. Gradually her movements became more emphatic, and suddenly under their long lashes, yellow eyes shone out, clear and bright as the eyes of a leopardess. She drew her body up to her full height and the copper castanets began to tinkle with such challenge in their piercing sound that the whole crowd trembled with emotion. Vivid, slender, supple as a serpent, the damsel whirled rapidly, her nostrils dilated, and ...
— The Satyricon, Complete • Petronius Arbiter



Words linked to "Leopardess" :   Panthera pardus



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