pharaohess

plural pharaohesses · alternative Pharaohess

1. A female pharaoh.

   Later that night, she visited me in my quarters with an urgent—and I might add, laudatory—message from the Pharaohess Herself.

   1983, The Best Science Fiction of the Year 12, page 330

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   [The priests decided] to pay everlasting honours to the Pharaohess Berenice, / the daughter of the Gods, the Well-doers, in all the temples of Egypt.

   1929, E. A. Wallis Budge, The Rosetta Stone in the British Museum, page 276

   Writer-Director Joseph L. Mankiewicz (All About Eve) announced that his version of Cleopatra, which stars Elizabeth Taylor (naturally; who is Pharaohess of them all?), would be considerably different from Shaw’s Caesar and Cleopatra.

   1961, Time, volume 77, page 44

   Here, too, are the same associations of old and new as, in “the sole irrhythm,” he describes his woman’s long neck and proud nose as “the way i always wanted/that pharaohess to me / to be hawk boned,” and then is ashamed “at what my god has done / to dam and hurt this nile.”

   1971, Prairie Schooner, volume 45, pages 84–85

   Ashteshyt, whose name may be derived from the Egyptian name of Isis, Aset, agrees to disguise herself as a man and go to reconnoiter the enemy camp. Based on Ashteshyt’s information, the pharaohess decides to attack. She again invokes Isis to help her and orders her people to make preparations for the attack.

   1995, deTraci Regula, The Mysteries of Isis: Her Worship and Magick, Llewellyn Publications, published 2001, →ISBN, page 94

   And the symbol of the Pyramid, adapted by the Illuminati, is NOT a symbol of Democracy for slaves, required to construct Pyramids for monetary Pharaohs and Pharaohesses who rule over many lands.

   1999 November 8, Anunga Aborigine, “NO vote given Rupert & Big Money Rubes”, in alt.conspiracy (Usenet), message-ID <805esm$56q$1@nnrp1.deja.com>

2. The wife of a pharaoh.

   “Unless you want to be his new bride by tomorrow, Ashley Porter, we’re outta here! And soon, kiddo, or you’ll be the latest Pharaohess! Mrs. Tutankhamun by morning.”

   2006, e.b. kowal, Sara’s Astonishing Time-Travel Troubles, published 2010, →ISBN

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   Balancing four boxes on her head, she mounted the stairs, telling herself that she was a slave-girl in ancient Egypt carrying stone blocks for the great pyramid. When she reached the first floor she removed both the wrap and the sandals to add authentic local colour and so that she was a genuine naked Nubian slave-girl whose slinky walk quickened the blood of the Pharaoh, who, encountered by chance on the landing, promptly asked her to be his fair Pharaohess and Queen of Upper and Lower Egypt.

   1997 [1968], Belle du Seigneur, Penguin Books, translation of original by Cohen, Albert, →ISBN, pages 602–603

plural Pharaohesses

1. Alternative letter-case form of pharaohess.