financieress

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noun

A female financier.

Scrabble 17

Meanings

nounfinancieress (plural financieresses)

plural financieresses

  1. datedA female financier.

    Mrs. Duke seems to be another of those high financieresses.

    1905 January 17, The Atlanta Constitution, volume XXXVII, number 216, Atlanta, Ga., page 6, column 1
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    Secretary Boutwell’s Financial Wife—Mrs. Tennie C. Claflin as a Financieress—Paper Money Worthless – A Common Currency for the World.

    1870 February 22, ““Gold Is Cash.””, in The New York Herald, number 12,238, page 8, column 3

    Fran Spitzeder, the beautiful and benevolent Munich financieress, is said to be under arrest on account of certain arithmetical peculiarities in her method of book-keeping.

    1872 December 20, “All Sorts and Sizes”, in Bangor Daily Whig and Courier, volume XXXIX, number 302, Bangor, Me., page [4], column 1

    Although this society has been organized but a short time, they seem to be very good financieresses, and in their administration of affairs will undoubtedly put a high tariff on everything in the edible line.

    1882 November 30, “P. F. G.”, in The Kansas Weekly Gazette, volume I, number 13, Lawrence, Kan., page [3], column 2

    “All the potentatoes, Mexican generalissimos and hefty financieresses have simply had me doing the monkey slide down the slideway of real work in their desire to have me to get busy and straighten out the kinks in their misunderstandings.”

    1913 August 28, “The Pretty Waitress Tells About Some of the Things She Has Done”, in Arkansas Democrat, Little Rock, Ark., page 6, column 5

    From Lathrop hall, Madison’s steel tired locomobiles will take the picnickers out to the suburb of South Madison. From there, the future financiers and financieresses will trip the light fantastic a short distance over to Monona park.

    1921 May 17, “Commerce Clubs to Have Picnic at Monona Park”, in The Capital Times, volume 7, number 142, Madison, Wis., page 4, column 4

Origin

Translations

French financière
  • financièrefemale financier
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APA

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Chicago

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