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New-Yorkeress

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Noun

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New-Yorkeress (plural New-Yorkeresses)

  1. Alternative form of New Yorkeress
    • 1857 March 5, “A War Whoop”, in The Carroll Free Press[1], volume 25, number 10 (whole 1,313), Carrollton, Ohio, column 2:
      But—(as we learn from our European correspondent)—but—he[sic] authoress of the hooped circle, the Empress Eugenie, has appeared in public without hoops. A revolution is in prospect, to which ’93 is pale! Hoops avaunt!—Down on your knees, femenine[sic] provincialdom, and hear the resistless ukase of the Empress Eugenie! New-Yorkeresses, obey! Off with your hoops! So much for the swelling shams
    • 1863, Henry P. Leland, Americans in Rome, New York, N.Y.: Charles T. Evans, page 34:
      “I thought of going up to the English chapel outside the Popolo, to see a pretty New-Yorkeress,” said the latter;
    • 1871, The Atlantic Monthly: A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics, volume XXVIII, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, late Ticknor & Fields, and Fields, Osgood, & Co., page 32, column 1:
      The lady was not pretty, and she was not, Isabel thought, dressed in the perfect taste of Boston; but she owned frankly to herself that the New-Yorkeress was stylish, undeniably effective.