Meanings
plural New-Yorkeresses
- alternativeAlternative form of New Yorkeress.
“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, N.Y.: Charles T. Evans, page 342 more examples
But—(as we learn from our European correspondent)—but—he^([sic]) authoress of the hooped circle, the Empress Eugenie, has appeared in public without hoops. A revolution is in prospect, to which ’93 is pale! Hoops avaunt!—Down on your knees, femenine^([sic]) provincialdom, and hear the resistless ukase of the Empress Eugenie! New-Yorkeresses, obey! Off with your hoops! So much for the swelling shams
1857 March 5, “A War Whoop”, in The Carroll Free Press, volume 25, number 10 (whole 1,313), Carrollton, Ohio, column 2The 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
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