单词 | brokeress |
释义 | brokeressn. 1. A procuress. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [noun] > pimping or procuring > procurer of either sex > procuress butcheressa1475 stew1552 bawdress1569 brokeress1582 pander1585 abbess1594 aunt1604 panderess1604 hackney womanc1616 bronstrops1617 procuress1638 provincialc1640 fruit-woman1673 flesh-broker1699 broker-woman1723 commode1725 coupleress1864 hack1864 procureuse1930 1582 R. Stanyhurst in tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis 97 Now beldam Brokresse must bee with moonnye rewarded. 1749 J. Cleland Mem. Woman of Pleasure II. 107 Three hundred guineas to myself, and an hundred to the brokeress. 1827 T. Carlyle tr. J. A. Musæus in German Romance I. 32 The talking brokeress..was far from giving him a true disclosure of her blabbing. 1865 A. C. Swinburne Chastelard ii. i Yea, and she said, the Italian brokeress, She said such men were good for great queens' love. 2. A female stockbroker. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > [noun] > dealer in stocks and shares > stock-broker > woman brokeress1872 1872 M. S. De Vere Americanisms 655 A couple of ladies having established their ‘Exchange Office’ in..Wall-street, they were at once spoken of in the New York papers as bankeresses or brokeresses. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < |
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