[In 15th c. tresoresse for tresoreresse, f. tresorer, TREASURER: see -ESS. Cf. OF. fem. tresorière.] A female treasurer.
c. 1450. in Aungier, Syon (1840), 287. The priores … schal depute a … suster experte in temporal rewle and gouernaunce for to assiste the tresouresses. Ibid., 292. The treseres and undertreseres.
1491. Caxton, Vitas Patr. (W. de W., 1495), I. cxxxviii. 151. The Tresoresse & moder of Orphanes.
1598. Yong, Diana, II. 57. One of my approoued friends, and treasouresse of my secrets.
a. 1688. Dk. Buckhm., Instalm., Wks. 1705, II. 84. A throng of Ladies, that did press To pay their Duty to the Treasuress.
1845. Daily Picayune, 16 Aug., 2/2. We set out not to catechise the ‘Female Moral Reform Society,’ but to say that they have fallen out about the funds. One party in the society are for discharging the treasuress—the treasuress says she won’t stay discharged.
1863. Faber, De Montfort’s True Devotion Virg., 12. He has made her the treasuress of all that His Father has given Him.
