Meaning

(dated) A female financier..

Example Sentences

Secretary Boutwell’s Financial Wife—Mrs. Tennie C. Claflin as a Financieress—Paper Money Worthless – A Common Currency for the World.

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.

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.

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

“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.”

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.

It develops, from the police version, that there was little else behind this venture of the frenzied financieress than an idea and an effective personality devoted to salesmanship.

Judge Cluer at Shoreditch: I see that she describes herself not as a moneylender, but as a financier. It ought to be financieress.

Word Forms

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When Should You Use Financieress?

Use financieress when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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