exigeante

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noun

A demanding woman.

OriginFrench exigeante →
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Meanings

nounexigeante (plural exigeantes)

plural exigeantes

  1. datedA demanding woman.

    Now mammas are sometimes exigeantes; and on a winter's evening I am loath to leave my comfortable fireside because Tommy has over-eaten himself and has the stomach-ache, or because that angel, Miss Lucy, has fallen down […]

    1871, My Heroine: A Story, page 2
adjectiveexigeante (comparative more exigeante, superlative most exigeante)

comparative more exigeante · superlative most exigeante

  1. datedOf a woman: demanding.

    One has had a bad supper, an exigeante dowager that he was obliged to escort having prevented his enjoying anything […]

    1841, Society in India; by an Indian officer, page 111

Origin

  1. Frenchexigeante
  2. Englishexigeante

From French exigeante, feminine form.

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Chicago

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