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Definition of Adventuresses
1. adventuress [n] - See also: adventuress
Lexicographical Neighbors of Adventuresses
Literary usage of Adventuresses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Darkness and Daylight; Or, Lights and Shadows of New York Life: A Woman's by Thomas Wallace Knox, Thomas F. Byrnes (1892)
"ODD and many are the ways of earning a living that are resorted to by numerous
adventurers and adventuresses in the metropolis ; for society in its varied ..."
2. Colonial Dames and Good Wives by Alice Morse Earle (1895)
"TWO COLONIAL adventuresses. A" STRANGE true story of Louisiana " so furnished
with every attractive element of romance, so calculated to satisfy every ..."
3. The Great Metropolis: A Mirror of New York by Junius Henri Browne (1869)
"THE adventuresses. To KNOW an adventuress, and to find her out,.is always a wound
to the ... All men of the World who have traveled have met adventuresses, ..."
4. The Works of George Meredith by George Meredith (1897)
"Girls of her kind, airing their wings above the sphere of their birth, are cry-
ingly adventuresses. As adventuresses they are treated. ..."
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