bankeress

English

Etymology

banker +‎ -ess

Noun

bankeress (plural bankeresses)

1. (obsolete) A female banker.
   • 1854, Arthur Pendennis [pseudonym; William Makepeace Thackeray], The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family, volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], →OCLC:

     I dined there a couple of months ago; and the bankeress said something about you

2. The wife of a banker

Translations

female banker

• German: Bankerin (de) f, Bänkerin (de) f

References

• “bankeress”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.