pedestrianess
nounEtymology From pedestrian + -ess.
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Dated A female pedestrian.
- A Pedestrianess.—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:
4 more examples
- 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:
- Bertha Von Hillern, the pedestrianess, is lionized by Boston.1877 January 19, Cherokee County Republican, volume V, number 25, Columbus, Kan.:
- 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