bankeress
English
Noun
bankeress (plural bankeresses)
- (obsolete) A female banker.
- 1854, Arthur Pendennis [pseudonym; William Makepeace Thackeray], The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], →OCLC:
- I dined there a couple of months ago; and the bankeress said something about you
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for bankeress in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
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