adventuress
Noun
Meaning
A female adventurer; a woman who tries to gain position by equivocal means.
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And what about the exotic lady adventuress herself?
His 2002 novel The Adventuress of Henrietta Street features characters carrying on the Hellfire tradition, while the Faction Paradox audio plays, Sabbath Dei and The Year of the Cat, feature Francis Dashwood as a secondary character.
Spade continues business as usual, although his secretary, Effie Perine, who by intuition had assured him that Miss Wonderly (O'Shaughnessy) was honest and trustworthy, is disappointed to learn that she was an unscrupulous adventuress.
Dilettante meant I could muck about in anything I felt like and adventuress meant I certainly wasn’t the kind of woman you’d take home to mother.
In the original and Legends continuities, she is on a plane that crashes in the Himalayas: her journey back to civilisation against the odds help begin her journey towards her adult life as an adventuress and treasure hunter.
In 1913, he sailed aboard the schooner Adventuress with owner John Borden to the Arctic.