What is "financiers"

Usage examples of "financiers".

They refused, and instead of getting angry, as he certainly would have done formerly, he commenced describing to them the splendors of the apartments, the magnificent furniture, the carpets and the hangings, the paintings by the great masters, the objects of arts, the bronzes, in a word, all that dazzling luxury of which financiers make use, somewhat as hunters do of the mirror with which larks are caught.

The obscure schemers of ten years ago have become big financiers, intrenched behind their money-bags as behind an impregnable fort.

The people of the bourse could hardly admire enough these bold financiers who had so deftly relieved that candid marquis of his money.

Have you noticed the air of suspense, of fluctuating hope and doubt, triumph and despair which has characterized our noble band of financiers during the last few days?

Directly the ladies had gone, the little knot of financiers drew up nearer to their host, and Griffenberg raised his eyebrows interrogatively.

The international financiers with their tangled labyrinths of manipulations understood perfectly.