Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A female banker; a banker's wife.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A female banker.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete A
female banker .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Lady Clara. we had all been sitting there when the bankeress cut in
The Newcomes 2006
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I dined there a couple of months ago; and the bankeress said something about you: that you and her nephew were much together, that you were sad wild dogs, I think — something of that sort.
The Newcomes 2006
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I'll go you halves, sir, and we'll ask the young banker and bankeress -- not yesterday's Amphitryon nor his wife; no, no, hang it! but Barnes Newcome is a devilish clever, rising man, and moves in about as good society as any in London.
The Newcomes William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
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Crackthorpe, Lord Highgate, and Lady Clara. we had all been sitting there when the bankeress cut in (in the mid of a very good story I was telling them, which entertained them very much), and never ceased talking till I fell off into a doze.
The Newcomes William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
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I dined there a couple of months ago; and the bankeress said something about you: that you and her nephew were much together, that you were sad wild dogs, I think -- something of that sort.
The Newcomes William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
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I’ll go you halves, sir, and we’ll ask the young banker and bankeress — not yesterday’s Amphitryon nor his wife; no, no, hang it! but Barnes Newcome is a devilish clever, rising man, and moves in about as good society as any in London.
The Newcomes 2006
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