forgeress
forgeress noun: a female forger (a person who forges, fabricates, or produces falsely).
Noun
forgeress (plural forgeresses)
- A female forger (a person who forges, fabricates, or produces falsely).
- [I]f all theſe forgereſſes of affected ſimperings ſhould not be praiſed by their Gallants, they would ſoon leave them, ſince it is certain they make none, but to attract lovers, and we ſhould ſee no more that which is ſo unpleaſing to the ſight; […]1655, [Madeleine] de Scudéry, translated by [John Davies], book I, in Clelia. An Excellent New Romance Dedicated to Mademoiselle de Longueville. […], part I, London: […] Humphrey Moseley and Thomas...
- 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...
Forms of forgeress
| plural | forgeresses |
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Origin of forgeress
From forger + -ess. Compare Middle English forgeresse (“a female metalworker”).
Questions about forgeress
- What does forgeress mean?
- Forgeress means a female forger (a person who forges, fabricates, or produces falsely).
- What part of speech is forgeress?
- Forgeress is a noun.
- What is the plural of forgeress?
- The plural of forgeress is forgeresses.
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