gamestressn.

1651 J. Howell S.P.Q.V. 4 She hath allwayes bin..chosen rather to be a Spectatrix or Umpresse, than a Gamestresse.

1665 R. Flecknoe Ænigmatical Characters (new ed.) 10 Of a Gamestress.

1750 Fables & Tales for Ladies 100 (heading) The gamestress.

1796 F. Burney Camilla V. x. v. 351 To two characters..she unites yet a third..that of a gamestress.

1828 B. Hofland Sisters (new ed.) viii. 103 This extravagant gamestress..had many a time betted as much money on the turn of a card, or the throw of a die, as would have found Olivia in charity-money for a twelvemonth.

1870 Harper's Mag. June 132/2 In France, women who wished to gamble were, at first, obliged to keep the thing secret... A gamestress was always denounced with horror.

1905 W. S. Sichel Emma Lady Hamilton v. 101 The Duke of Cumberland had also been there with Lord Ferrers and the ill-starred gamestress, Lady Elizabeth Luttrell.

2001 N.Y. Times Mag. 20 May 28/1 Tina Wesson—no-nonsense athlete, master gamestress of the Australian Outback and sudden millionaire—lays out her main dietary restriction: no vegetables.