New Yorkeress

See also: New-Yorkeress

English

Alternative forms

New-Yorkeress

Etymology

From New Yorker +‎ -ess.

Noun

New Yorkeress (plural New Yorkeresses)

A female New Yorker.
- 1857, Porter’s Spirit of the Times: A Chronicle of the Turf, Field Sports, Literature and the Stage, page 26, column 2:
  But—(see our European corresponde to-day)—but—the authoress of the hooped circle, the Empress Eugénie, has appeared in public without hoops. A revolution is in prospect, to which ’93 is pale! Hoops, avaunt! Down on your knees, feminine provincialdom, and hear the resistless ukase of the Empress Eugénie! New Yorkeresses, obey! Off with your hoops! So much for the swelling sham-!
- 1861, Vanity Fair, volume third, New York: Louis H. Stephens, page 125, column 2:
  Bulls! had you have visited Central Park when the New Yorkeresses were on the ice, you would have seen where the dear Little Slippers were.
- 1863, Henry P. Leland, Americans in Rome, New York: 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; […]
- 1870, Punchinello, page 86, column 1:
  RETTY Fraülein Margaret asks me to go to church with her. She is not a New Yorker—or, as Webster would probably say,—a New Yorkeress.
- 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.
- 1871, Lippincott’s Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, volume VIII, Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott and Co., page 573, column 2:
  Imagine the scene that Broadway would present were New Yorkeresses in the habit of spending their papas’ and husbands’ money when, to be poetical, / ‘The night with misty mantle spread / ’Gins dark the day and dim the azure skies.’
- 1886, Frank Leslie’s Popular Monthly, volume 21, page 3, column 1:
  Where is the New Yorker in the fifties, or the New Yorkeress of uncertain age, who has not had a good time at Niblo’s?
- [1892, Current Literature, volume 10, page 117:
  Nevertheless, we do not recall that it was a newspaper which gave currency to obsolete words like “commensals” or extraordinary ones like “vastated,” or called a woman who lives in New York a “New Yorkeress,” or described a man as having a “plangent” voice, or referred to a table-d’hôte dinner as being “prefatorily furnished” with olives.]
- 1892, Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, volume 84, page 611, column 2:
  They had not the New-Yorkeress air; they had nothing of the stylishness which Ray saw in the other women about him, shabby or splendid; their hats looked as if they had been trimmed at home, and their simple gowns as if their wearers had invented and made them up themselves, after no decided fashion, but after a taste of their own which he thought good.
- [1894, The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science, and Art, volume 78, page 689, column 2:
  But Mr. Howells’s Americanisms are mild and moderate, and only here and there do we meet with such words as “disoccupation” or a “New Yorkeress.”]
- 1921, Adventure, volume 29, page 52:
  If a New Yorker is polite it is because he has either a gold-brick or a gaspipe up his sleeve; but it is the strange New Yorkeress who is preeminently to be shunned. That is, if one wishes, to have any claim at all to wisdom. / The best thing to do with a strange woman—in any city—is to leave your coattails in her hand and flee. The more innocent she seems, the louder you should yell for a cop.
- 1960, New Statesman, volume 59, page 20, column 1:
  Its heroine is Micheline, a New Yorkeress of Peruvian origin.
- [1960, The Georgia Review, volume 14, page 385:
  A good many more ess feminine nouns jolt the mid-twentieth century reader of Howells. In Their Wedding Journey, the leading characters, the Marches, encounter a New Yorkeress; years later in Their Silver Wedding Journey they are guided through a European church by a vergeress. In Mrs. Farrell there is a brief mention of a “St. Louis lawyeress,” a term which today would seem as incongruous as a buggy-hitching weight in an Oldsmobile.]
- 1963, Clarence A. Glasrud, Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen, page 48:
  She has all the grace and perfection of taste which distinguishes the real New Yorkeress (Pardon the violation of Webster); & is otherwise a sweet, unaffected & true-hearted girl.