exigeante

English

Etymology

From French exigeante, feminine form.

Noun

exigeante (plural exigeantes)

1. (dated) A demanding woman.
   • 1871, My Heroine: A Story, page 2:

     Now mammas are sometimes exigeantes; and on a winter's evening I am loath to leave my comfortable fireside because Tommy has over-eaten himself and has the stomach-ache, or because that angel, Miss Lucy, has fallen down […]

Adjective

exigeante (comparative more exigeante, superlative most exigeante)

1. (dated) Of a woman: demanding.
   • 1841, Society in India; by an Indian officer, page 111:

     One has had a bad supper, an exigeante dowager that he was obliged to escort having prevented his enjoying anything […]

French

Adjective

exigeante

1. feminine singular of exigeant

Norman

Adjective

exigeante

1. feminine singular of exigeant