snow-leopardess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snow-leopardesses
Senses: examples: text: “And she placed a yellow snake at your feet!” sneered Gutchlug. “Prince Sanang, tell me, what man or what devil in all the chronicles of the past has ever tamed a Snow-Leopard?” And he continued to hone his yataghan. / “Gutchlug⸺” / “No, she dies,” said the other tranquilly. / “Not yet!” / “When, then?” / “Gutchlug, thou knowest me. Hear my pledge! At her first gesture toward treachery—her first thought of betrayal—I myself will end it all.” / “You promise to slay this young snow-leopardess?”
ref: 1919 July, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, “The Yezidee: The Slayer of Souls – I”, in Hearst’s, volume XXXVI, number 1, New York, N.Y.: International Magazine Company, page 73, column 1:
text: “Teufelstuck!” he screamed, “ain’t I tell efferybody in Yian already it iss safer if we cut your throat! Devil-slut of Erlik—snow-leopardess!—cat of the Yezidees who has made of Sanang a fool!—it iss I who haf said always, always, that you know too damn much! . . . Kai! . . . I hear my soul bidding me farewell. Gif me my shroud!”
ref: 1919 October, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, “The Knife from Mount Alamout: The Slayer of Souls – IV”, in Hearst’s, volume XXXVI, number 4, New York, N.Y.: International Magazine Company, page 66, column 3:
text: But, for a Yezidee, there was still a little detail to attend to before his soul departed;—two matters to regulate. One was to select his shroud. The other was to cut the white throat of this young snow-leopardess called Keuke Mongol, the Yezidee temple girl.
ref: 1920, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, “The Yellow Snake”, in The Slayer of Souls, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, page 35:
text: Turning to her guest, she found her no longer a Madonna—a snow-leopardess, sleek and self-seeking; herself as she had been at Venice. Were all girls like that? […] Next morning no reply from Dick. The snow-leopardess was unperturbed as ever. The bustle of departure. Jim’s portrait in the hall smiling down on her. White Chimneys, as she drove away, staring forsakenly.
ref: 1925 April, Coningsby Dawson, “Old Youth”, in William Frederick Bigelow, editor, Good Housekeeping, volume LXXX, number 4, New York, N.Y.: International Magazine Company, Inc., chapter V, section 7, pages 264 and 266, column 3:
text: We were on our way back to camp after a fruitless search for ibex marks when we suddenly disturbed a snow-leopardess with two cubs that were sunning themselves on a ledge of rock just below us.
ref: 1928, Captain [Conrad] O’Brien ffrench, “Kale of Kashmir”, in The Cornhill Magazine, London, page 492:
text: Even as the beast sprang, the keen steel whistled through the air, and the headless body of the snow-leopardess lurched sideways—fell, sideways, and lay kicking convulsively, dark fountains of blood spouting from the severed neck.
ref: 1934, Mark Channing, “The Adventure on the Shale Slope”, in White Python: Adventure and Mystery in Tibet, Philadelphia, Pa.; London: J. B. Lippincott Company, page 118:
text: There were certain cages you felt you had to pass on tiptoe, noting some aged Fellow whispering endearments into a snow-leopardess’s furry ear.
ref: 1957 November 19, Peter Simple [pseudonym; Michael Wharton], “[Way of the World] End of the Affair”, in The Daily Telegraph and Morning Post, 4 a.m. edition, number 31,912, London, page 10, column 4:
glosses: Alternative form of snow leopardess.