Meanings
plural traveleresses
- alternativeAlternative form of travelleress.
Laly Duff Gordon, the great English traveleress, is dead.
1869 August 29, “Personal”, in The Daily Picayune, volume XXXIII, number 181, New Orleans, La., column 22 more examples
Particularly nice for a traveleress were the dark wine (or blue) rayon-and-silk satin P. J.’s, piped in white, and man-tailored-to-a-tee; only $2.
1938 August 30, Elizabeth (Babs) Devine, “Shopping with Babs”, in Harrisburg Telegraph, Harrisburg, Pa., page 11, column 3I’d been invited to the USSR (in the days when I was a fellow-traveler or traveleress), to the commemoration of a titanic Caucasian poet by the name of Rustaveli.
2005, “In the Fairy Café des Oiseaux”, in Peter Bush, transl., A Cock-Eyed Comedy: Starring Friar Bugeo Montesino and Other Fairies of Motley Feather and Fortune, San Francisco, Calif.: City Lights Books, translation of Carajicomedia by Juan Goytisolo, →ISBN, page 147
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