new-comer

See also: newcomer, Newcomer, and new comer

English

Noun

new-comer (plural new-comers)

1. Dated form of newcomer.
   • 1847, Charlotte Brontë, chapter 18, in Jane Eyre:

     Some parleying was audible in the hall, and soon the new-comer entered. He bowed to Lady Ingram, as deeming her the eldest lady present.

   • 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

     This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking. In complexion fair, and with blue or gray eyes, he was tall as any Viking, as broad in the shoulder.