millionnaire

plural millionnaires

1. archaicArchaic spelling of millionaire.

   But the state of Dalibard, though prosperous, is not that of the heir to the dead millionnaire.

   1853, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Lucretia, Complete

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   The large, smooth, florid millionnaire, dreaming only of senatorial honors, the shouts of the multitude, and the adoration of a party press, cowered like a dog under the lash of the "man of society."

   1858, Various, The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, Number 9, July, 1858

   They are all stupid when they are not crafty, and very few of them are crafty. The only wise Republicans are the millionnaires and their conscious henchmen. They know which side their bread is buttered on, and they know why.

   1908 September – 1909 September, Jack London, chapter XXIX, in Martin Eden, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, published September 1909, →OCLC, page 258

   He swallowed it, of course, and for the next five minutes he went charging up and down that pond at a great rate, followed by a green glass monster with the name of a millionnaire brewer blown in its side.

   1914, William Davenport Hulbert, Forest Neighbors