financieress

English

Etymology

From financier +‎ -ess.

Noun

financieress (plural financieresses)

1. (dated) A female financier.
   • 1870 February 22, ““Gold Is Cash.””, in The New York Herald, number 12,238, page 8, column 3:

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

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

     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.

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

     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.

   • 1905 January 17, The Atlanta Constitution, volume XXXVII, number 216, Atlanta, Ga., page 6, column 1:

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

   • 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:

     “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.”

   • 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:

     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.

   • 1924 October 16, O. L. Scott, “Woman Oil Operator Is Another Ponzi In Frenzied Finance, Claim; Police Catch Financieress; Millions Promised To Investors In Mexican Stock Scheme, Charge”, in The Birmingham News, volume XXXVII, number 217, Birmingham, Ala., page three, column 2:

     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.

   • 1928 January 18, “Court Gossip”, in The Daily Mail, number 13,192, page 3, column 1:

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

   • 1943 October 27, Paul Ellerbe, “Desert Rain”, in Daily News, volume 25, number 106, New York, N.Y., page 38, column 2:

     But the point is, Janie puss, I’ve got a vacation coming. Beginning tomorrow after work. A week. In which I shall do nothing but snore in the sun and call on Miss Janie Drumm, the rising young financieress from the East.

   • 1951, Alfred Jarry, “Ubu Roi”, in Barbara Wright, transl., Four Modern French Comedies, New York, N.Y.: Capricorn Books, published 1960, →LCCN, page 60:

     By my financial sabre, horn of my gibolets, Madame the financieress, I have earens to speak with and you have a mouth to hear me with.

   • 1951 July 30, Jay Carmody, “The Passing Show: Movies No Longer Too Big For Release in August”, in The Evening Star, 99th year, number 211, Washington, D.C., page A-12, column 2:

     Mary Coyle Chase, whose millions in royalties from “Harvey” turned her into a financieress instead of a writer, finally has finished another play.

   • 1971, Kenward Elmslie, “Accident Vertigo”, in Thomas M[ichael] Disch, editor, The Ruins of Earth: An Anthology of Stories of the Immediate Future, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, page 164:

     Trapdoor egresses at the end of a series of ladders, one on top of the other. Egresses that are never used, for the financieress refuses to underwrite the expense of top-grade preservatives for the butterbeans.

   • 1971 May 22, Peter Hillmore, “Women are rejected by Stock Exchange”, in The Guardian, page 20:

     One woman financier (financieress), who would have applied for admission had the voting been different, said yesterday that there was absolutely no logical reason why women should not be admitted.

   • 1989, anonymous author, The Libertines, New York, N.Y.: Carroll & Graf Publishers, Inc., →ISBN, page 132:

     She rubs my palm, for the financieress, like her senile husband, rubs everything to make it move.