sales-lady

plural sales-ladies

1. archaicArchaic form of saleslady.

   “I am the sales-lady who served you, madam,” responded the reduced empress in banged hair, long watch-chain and ringed fingers, who presided at the counter.

   1879 January 11, “Fun”, in Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, volume XLVII, number 1,215, New York, N.Y., page 338, column 2

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   It describes the largest combination dry-goods store and bazaar in Paris, and shows the life of the sales-ladies and salesmen employed behind its counters, with their flirtations, trials, troubles and temptations.

   1882, “Emile Zola’s Greatest Works”, in Émile Zola, The Mysteries of the Court of Louis Napoleon, Philadelphia, Pa.: T. B. Peterson & Brothers: […]

   Lillian Stubbs, sales-lady, as she called herself, stood irresolute, for a moment, behind the storm-doors of that fashionable emporium known as Dunn, Dusenberry & Co.

   1888, Donn Piatt, “The Sales-Lady of the City”, in The Lone Grave of the Shenandoah and Other Tales, Chicago, Ill.; […]: Belford, Clarke & Co., →OCLC, page 86