adventureress

== English == === Etymology === From adventurer +‎ -ess. === Noun === adventureress (plural adventureresses) (sometimes proscribed) Alternative form of adventuress. === References === R[obert] W[illiam] Burchfield, editor (1996), “-ess”, in The New Fowler’s Modern English Usage, third edition, Oxford, Oxon: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, page 263, column 1: