bankeress

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English

Etymology

banker +‎ -ess

Noun

bankeress (plural bankeresses)

  1. (obsolete) A female banker.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Thackeray to this entry?)

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for bankeress”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)