post-lady

plural post-ladies

1. alternativeAlternative form of post lady.

   [M]y husband delivered a card to the local post-lady who has just had a baby.

   1994 April 27, Susan Bassnett, “Letter: Vocal opposition to Portillo over the causes of disquiet for the majority”, in The Independent, London: Independent News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 Sep 2021

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   Whether it’s a post-lady’s leg, a dead badger, or a particularly sexy Pug that your dog wants to make sweet love to, do not let this happen.

   2013 November 12, Lee Coan, “The unspoken rules of dog walking”, in The Daily Telegraph, London: Telegraph Media Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 Nov 2013

   It was only down to a local village post-lady that he survived. She came across a letter to the authorities from a villager denouncing him as a Jew and she destroyed it.

   2015 May 8, Angelique Chrisafis, quoting Marie-Catherine Bovis, “VE Day: our memories of the second world war and the day it ended”, in The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 May 2015