nonce-wd. [see -ESS.] A female banker; a banker’s wife.
1854. Thackeray, Newcomes, I. xxiv. 229. I dined there a couple of months ago, and the bankeress said something about you.
1883. American, V. 200. The late Countess of Jersey was only received on sufferance in some houses in Vienna, because she was a bankeress.
