pedestrianess

plural pedestrianesses

1. datedA female pedestrian.

   Bertha Von Hillern, the pedestrianess, is lionized by Boston.

   1877 January 19, Cherokee County Republican, volume V, number 25, Columbus, Kan.

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   A Pedestrian'''ess.—A widow upwards of 60 years of age, betted last week, to walk 92 miles in 24 hours.

   1827 January 6, The Honduras Gazette and Commercial Advertiser, volume I, number 28, Belize

   The spectators were not parsimonious in rewarding the labours of the pedestrianess.

   1827 May 10, The Long-Island Star, volume XVIII, number 49, Brooklyn, N.Y.: Alden Spooner

   Mrs. M’Mullen, the pedestrianess, whose performances we recorded last year, commenced on Monday evening, a more arduous undertaking.

   1827 June 16, The York Herald, and General Advertiser, number 1918, York

   Portfolios repacked, and horses remounted, on we went again, meeting quite numerous trains of travelling parties—camelestrians, donkeyteers, pedestrians, horsemen, and poneymen; and then poneymen, and horsemen, and donkeyteers, and camelestrians, again. Aye, and here are horsewomen besides ourselves, too; and mulewomen, and pedestrianesses, &c.

   1856, Lady Emmeline Stuart Wortley, The Sweet South, volume II, London: […] George Barclay, […], page 218

   Up there in Auburn, New York, an esteemed pedestrian, Reginald Heber Tubbs, agreed to walk against an esteemed pedestrianess, Miss Elsa Von Blumen.

   1879 January 20, The Times, number 1225, Philadelphia, Pa.

   Synonyms: pedestrienne