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, volumes (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
- The wife of a banker
References
- “bankeress”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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