"forgeress" meaning in English

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          "text": "[I]f all theſe forgereſſes of affected ſimperings ſhould not be praiſed by their Gallants, they would ſoon leave them, ſince it is certain they make none, but to attract lovers, and we ſhould ſee no more that which is ſo unpleaſing to the ſight; […]",
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          "text": "The last three months of my stay in San Francisco I cut out all the pictures of pretty girls from three newspapers. They included all kinds of women—society, club, athletic, college, high-brow, low-brow; highway-women, burglaresses, forgeresses and murderesses.",
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          "text": "It is queer to shake hands and chat socially with three convicted murderesses, with half a dozen virile young forgeresses, and to be hailed as a welcome guest from their home town.",
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          "text": "From petty crooks who “get theirs,” to the occasional glamorous female “forgeresses,” Zanuck’s early movie world is an imaginative place populated by the full spectrum of criminal types, all of whom prey on the fabulous (and amply documented) world of the wealthy.",
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