adventuress

[ UK /ɐdvˈɛnt‍ʃəɹˌɛs/ ]
NOUN
  1. a woman adventurer
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How To Use adventuress In A Sentence

  • Woman that adventured were adventuresses, and the connotation was not nice. Chapter 6
  • Vogue editor, tastemaker, adventuress, she exploded with style and joie de vivre.
  • For the uninitiated, Charley's an Edwardian adventuress who stowed away on an airship, the R101, and was rescued by The Doctor just before it blew up in flames.
  • In 1871 an English adventuress named Lucy Walker became the first woman to summit the mountain.
  • I perceived her, under the heavy procession of his words, a figure of astounding romance, an adventuress incomparable, a Polynesian bacchante. The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story
  • The rumour-mongers have portrayed me as a hard-bitten political adventuress devoid of all human feeling.
  • woman who would never behave like an adventuress, but unfortunately this assumption was difficult to support with hard facts. ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
  • Mrs. Gunning was openly called the Adventuress, and it was a favourite sport with some ladies to imitate her Irish accent and carnying ways with those she would please; and doubtless Maria angled a little too openly for her lord. The Ladies A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty
  • Inevitably her exploits were exaggerated and she became known as an adventuress .
  • It's instructive to see her as the aristocratic adventuress in the 18 th-century potboiler The Affair of the Necklace.
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