exigeante

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English

Etymology

French exigeante, feminine form.

Noun

exigeante (plural exigeantes)

  1. (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

exigeante (comparative more exigeante, superlative most exigeante)

  1. (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

Adjective

exigeante

  1. feminine singular of exigeant

Norman

Adjective

exigeante

  1. feminine singular of exigeant