adventureress

plural adventureresses

1. alternativeproscribedsometimesAlternative form of adventuress.

   I’ll foil them though, the mean adventureresses!

   1871 May, “Mr. Fitz-Hume’s Experiment; and How It Succeeded”, in For Everybody, volume 1, number 3, Buffalo, N.Y., page [6], column 1

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   Again, if we have dangerovs^([sic]) men in the humblest ranks, we have adventureresses of late years in all ranks.

   1858 August 20, Newcastle Courant, number 9582, page 6, column 5

   And now from Dayton we hear concerning the operations of a notorous^([sic]) adventureress and impostor hailing from this place, who has been repeatedly exposed. […] A letter addressed to Deacon ⸻ of that place, by a person who doubted the young woman’s story, brought the information, on Tuesday, that she is a wandering adventureress who is playing the paralysis dodge in order to make money.

   1871 August 25, The Fremont Weekly Journal, volume XIX, number 3[?], Fremont, Oh., page [2], column 5

   It is said that there are 60,000 “adventureresses.” “Adventureress” means almost anything.

   1885 August 8, The Atchison Weekly Champion, volume 28, number 23 (Champion Series) / volume 31, number 25 (Squatter Sovereign Series), Atchison, Kan., front page, column 2

   Some months ago, writes a Paris correspondent, a couple of adventureresses were arrested for having worked a matrimonial agency, which was in reality an effective machinery for decoying men on the lookout for rich wives.

   1887 May 6, “Matrimonial Decoy Duck. How Sharp-Witted Parisians and a Pretty American Made Money.”, in The Daily American, volume XII, number 3,889, Nashville, Tenn., page 8, column 4

   It sticks to the novel closely and makes the heroine, “Lena Despard,” an adventureress of desperate wickedness.

   1887 September 25, Blakely Hall, chapter II, in J. H. Estill, editor, The Morning News, Savannah, Ga., page 2, column 2