gamestress

She was as remarkable for her accomplishments and her worth as for her beauty; nevertheless she permitted the admiration of the profligate Fox, who was in the rank of her admirers, and she was a gamestress, as were most of the grand ladies in those days.

The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims, In All Times and Countries, especially in England and in France 1870

That was indeed the forest of all evils, hut an evil to which every deep gamestress was inevitably exposed. '

The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims, In All Times and Countries, especially in England and in France 1870

This notorious gamestress of St James's Square, at the close of the last century, actually slept with a blunderbuss and a pair of pistols at her side, to protect her Faro bank.

The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims, In All Times and Countries, especially in England and in France 1870

The fair gamestress, with a disdainful toss of the head, observed -- ` In the great houses which I frequent, sir, we always use gold. '

The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims, In All Times and Countries, especially in England and in France 1870

In the reign of Louis XIV., and still more in that of Louis XV., they became bolder, and the wives of the great engaged in the deepest play in their mansions; but still a gamestress was always denounced with horror.

The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims, In All Times and Countries, especially in England and in France 1870

Each gamestress, armed with her club, then repaired to the spot, and the opposing parties arrayed themselves, the one facing the other with the ball between them.

ROCKY MOUNTAIN LIFE 1841

I have already described a remarkable gamestress -- the Persian Queen Parysatis. [

The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims, In All Times and Countries, especially in England and in France 1870