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  • 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.

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