| 释义 |
ˈbrokeress
[f. as prec. + -ess.]
a. A procuress.
b. A female stockbroker.
1583Stanyhurst Poems (Arb.) 140 Now beldam brokresse must be with moonny rewarded. 1749J. Cleland Mem. Woman Pleasure II. 106 Three hundred guineas to myself, and an hundred to the brokeress. 1827Carlyle Germ. Rom. I. 32 The talking brokeress..was far from giving him a true disclosure of her blabbing. 1865Swinburne Chastelard ii. i, Yea, and she said, the Italian brokeress, She said such men were good for great queens' love. 1872Schele de Vere Americanisms 655 A couple of ladies having established their ‘Exchange Office’ in..Wall-street, they were at once spoken of in the New York papers as bankeresses or brokeresses. |