paymistress
(ˈpeɪˌmɪstrɪs)
[f. pay- + mistress, after paymaster.]
A woman who superintends or manages the payment of persons or services; also fig. something, personified as female, that pays or remunerates a person.
| 1583 T. Watson Centurie of Loue fin., The Labour is light, where Loue is the Paiemistres. 1590 Greene Never too late (1600) 115 Thow shalt finde..folly the paymistris that rewards all amorous trauels. 1651 Relat. Poysoning Sir T. Overbury 20 He charged..Mrs. Turner to be..the pay-mistresse of the Poysoners rewards. 1886 Sat. Rev. 6 Mar. 329/1 Hissing the Attorney-General's Sovereign and paymistress. |