exigeante
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
French exigeante, feminine form.
Noun[edit]
exigeante (plural exigeantes)
- (dated) A demanding woman.
- 1871, My Heroine: A Story, page 2:
- Now mammas are sometimes exigeantes; and on a winter's evening I am loath to leave my comfortable fireside because Tommy has over-eaten himself and has the stomach-ache, or because that angel, Miss Lucy, has fallen down […]
Adjective[edit]
exigeante (comparative more exigeante, superlative most exigeante)
- (dated) Of a woman: demanding.
- 1841, Society in India; by an Indian officer, page 111:
- One has had a bad supper, an exigeante dowager that he was obliged to escort having prevented his enjoying anything […]
French[edit]
Adjective[edit]
exigeante
Norman[edit]
Adjective[edit]
exigeante