travelleress

plural travelleresses · alternative traveleress

1. rareA female traveller.

   They are however ladylike & plucky as travelleresses.

   a. 1888, Edward Lear, [Letter]; republished as Letters of Edward Lear to Chichester Fortescue (Lord Carlingford) and Frances Countess Waldegrave, London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1909, page 200

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   It was not the fashion to ride in omnibuses, and so she sacrificed her personal appearance in order to impress on her fellow-travellers—or more especially her “fellow-travelleresses”—that she was not used to such conveyances, and expected every moment to be overturned.

   1865, Thomas Hood, “Pleasant Days at Hampton”, in Captain Masters’s Children. A Novel., volume III, London: Sampson Low, Son, and Marston, page 55

   The night journey was an interchange of sleeping and grumbling, with a little sickliness now and then, by way of variety, on the part of some of my fellow-travelleresses.

   1869, J[ohn] T[aylor] Coleridge, “Tutorship and Second Residence at Oriel.—Death of Mrs. Keble.—1818—1823.”, in A Memoir of the Rev. John Keble, M. A., Late Vicar of Hursley, 2nd edition, volume I, New York, N.Y.: Pott & Amery, page 121

   It is stated that a well-known London firm has decided to employ lady commercial travellers. I should suppose that the success of this attempt will depend, in some measure, upon the share of good looks possessed by the travelleresses.

   1885 March 15, “Editorial Notes”, in The Merchant & Manufacturer: An Export Trade Journal Between England and the Colonies, volume VII, number 133, page 53, column 2

   A much more common figure is the merely wrong-headed and cantankerous traveller—and particularly travelleress, if that word may be permitted—who wrangles over everything, and will not recognize the fact that dishonest Custom-house officials, swindling landlords, and irritating police regulations are inevitable evils in foreign parts.

   1886 August 21, “H.B.M. Consul”, in The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science, and Art, volume 62, number 1,608, London, page 253, column 1

   Mrs. Sheldon, the African travelleress, says “she was favourably received not only by the inhabitants but even by the crocodiles.”

   1891 September 23, Judy: The London Serio-Comic Journal, page 153, column 2