multimillionairess

English

Etymology

From multimillionaire +‎ -ess.

Noun

multimillionairess (plural multimillionairesses)

1. A female multimillionaire.
   • 1896, Harper’s Weekly, volume 40, page 150, column 3:

     It is safe to say that there is not one of our multimillionaires who could not be a peer, or at least a baronet, if he were an Englishman; and it is really a great hardship, and enough to make a multimillionaire hate and despise his native land, that he can be nothing of the kind in America. In the case of our multimillionairesses it is not quite so bad, for they can easily buy titled husbands; but even if their brothers bought titled wives, they could not share their titles, and become dukes and lords as the multimillionairesses become duchesses and countesses.

   • 1945, New York Court of Appeals, Records and Briefs, page 2524:

     Mr. Pfeiffer: When you were trying to show Mrs. Feuerring to be a wealthy woman, and how much money she has. You want Mr. Roosevelt to think she is a multimillionairess so that if he wanted to award $100,000, it wouldn’t be a penny out of her pocket.

   • 1981, Samar Attar, The Intruder in Modern Drama, →ISBN, page 87:

     At this point the multimillionairess appears and hands the check to the mayor.

   • 2011, Shirley Strawberry, Lyah Beth LeFlore, The Strawberry Letter, One World Books (The Random House Publishing Group), →ISBN, page 15:

     Before giving up, she [Cathy Hughes] decided to try one more bank and they approved her. […] Imagine if she hadn’t gone to that last bank? She wouldn’t have the media empire she has today, and have become one of the few multimillionairesses in our field.