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bankeresses

bankeresses is the plural of bankeress.

Meaning of bankeress

Noun

bankeress (plural bankeresses)

  1. (obsolete) A female banker.
    • I dined there a couple of months ago; and the bankeress said something about you1854, Arthur Pendennis [pseudonym; William Makepeace Thackeray], The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], →OCLC
  2. The wife of a banker

Questions about bankeresses

What is bankeresses the plural of?
Bankeresses is the plural of bankeress.

Words near bankeresses in the dictionary

  1. bankeraceous
  2. bankerage
  3. bankerages
  4. bankerdom
  5. bankeress
  6. bankeresses
  7. bankerish
  8. bankerless
  9. bankerly
  10. bankers
  11. bankers' drafts

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