adventuress
- n a woman adventurer
- v take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome
- v put at risk
- When first seen, Jen seems lovely but unformed, a dreamy adventuress who wants the freedom of the heroes she reads about.
- Elizabeth, Countess Fischler von Treuberg, 58, famed European adventuress; by Edgar Beese, German flier, who committed suicide at the same time; in Berlin.
- One little adventuress, known to her kin as Brunhild, escapes this seeming paradise, floating up under the umbrella-penumbra of a jellyfish.