heiress apparent

Noun

heiress apparent (plural heiresses apparent)

1. A female heir apparent.
   • “Dear me!” said I, “what a sweeping charge of folly you are bringing against nearly the whole sex, which, after all, is only another version of what I said, namely, that women were great fools to marry. I have no doubt there are exceptions, and that the poor Princess Charlotte, for instance, found...1851, [Rosina] Bulwer Lytton, chapter IV, in Miriam Sedley; or, The Tares and the Wheat. A Tale of Real Life., volume III, London: W[illiam] Shoberl, […], pages 140–141
   • Marry money, thought I to myself, who will he marry? then in my own mind I made a review of all the marriageable heiresses, and heiresses apparent, not only in Silveryville, but likewise, in a circuit several miles around it, and I could not find one among them all, who was not already engaged to...1861, G. Fort, “Our First Newspaper”, in We Four Villagers. A Tale of Domestic Life in Pennsylvania., Philadelphia, Pa.: J. S. McCalla, […], page 60