burglaress

Noun

burglaress (plural burglaresses)

1. (dated, rare) A female burglar.
   • But in men these virtues are comparatively unimportant, and the one supreme and cardinal virtue of a Ceres man is that he should never have had the tip of his nose touched by a woman. A man with an untouched nose may be proud, arrogant, and cruel, and yet be admired; but a man who is known to have...1902 March 20, R. B. Kerr, “A Strange Custom”, in M[oses] Harman, editor, Lucifer, the Light-Bearer, volume VI (Third Series), number 10 (909 overall), Chicago, Ill.: M. Harman, →OCLC, page 73...
   • The last three months of my stay in San Francisco I cut out all the pictures of pretty girls from three newspapers. They included all kinds of women—society, club, athletic, college, high-brow, low-brow; highway-women, burglaresses, forgeresses and murderesses.1916 February, Inez Haynes Gillmore, “The Californiacs”, in Charles K[ellogg] Field, editor, Sunset, the Pacific Monthly, San Francisco, Calif.: Woodhead, Field & Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 60...