New Yorkeress

plural New Yorkeresses · alternative New-Yorkeress

1. datedA female New Yorker.

   “I thought of going up to the English chapel outside the Popolo, to see a pretty New-Yorkeress,” said the latter;[…]

   1863, Henry P. Leland, Americans in Rome, New York: Charles T. Evans, page 34

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   But—(see our European corresponde to-day)—but—the authoress of the hooped circle, the Empress Eugénie, has appeared in public without hoops. A revolution is in prospect, to which ’93 is pale! Hoops, avaunt! Down on your knees, feminine provincialdom, and hear the resistless ukase of the Empress Eugénie! New Yorkeresses, obey! Off with your hoops! So much for the swelling sham-!

   1857, Porter’s Spirit of the Times: A Chronicle of the Turf, Field Sports, Literature and the Stage, page 26, column 2

   Bulls! had you have visited Central Park when the New Yorkeresses were on the ice, you would have seen where the dear Little Slippers were.

   1861, Vanity Fair, volume third, New York: Louis H. Stephens, page 125, column 2

   RETTY Fraülein Margaret asks me to go to church with her. She is not a New Yorker—or, as Webster would probably say,—a New Yorkeress.

   1870, Punchinello, page 86, column 1

   The lady was not pretty, and she was not, Isabel thought, dressed in the perfect taste of Boston; but she owned frankly to herself that the New-Yorkeress was stylish, undeniably effective.

   1871, The Atlantic Monthly: A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics, volume XXVIII, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, late Ticknor & Fields, and Fields, Osgood, & Co., page 32, column 1

   Imagine the scene that Broadway would present were New Yorkeresses in the habit of spending their papas’ and husbands’ money when, to be poetical, / ‘The night with misty mantle spread / ’Gins dark the day and dim the azure skies.’

   1871, Lippincott’s Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, volume VIII, Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott and Co., page 573, column 2