Also 6 libardesse. [f. LEOPARD + -ESS.] The female of the leopard.
1567. Maplet, Gr. Forest, 92. The Lion and Libardesse [having conjunction] bring forth a third kind.
1883. Mrs. Lynn Linton, Ione, I. xi. 263. She had the supple grace of movement of … a leopardess.
attrib. 1873. Lowell, Among my Bks., Ser. II. 317. This glimpse of her, with her leopardess beauty … is all we have.
