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Date: 1500-1600
Language: Old French
Origin: ambassé

embassy

 noun
     
Related topics: Officials
em‧bas‧sy plural embassies [countable]
PGO a group of officials who represent their government in a foreign country, or the building they work in:
the American Embassy in Paris
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