traveleress

English

Noun

traveleress (plural traveleresses)

1. Alternative form of travelleress
   • 1869 August 29, “Personal”, in The Daily Picayune, volume XXXIII, number 181, New Orleans, La., column 2:

     Laly Duff Gordon, the great English traveleress, is dead.

   • 1938 August 30, Elizabeth (Babs) Devine, “Shopping with Babs”, in Harrisburg Telegraph, Harrisburg, Pa., page 11, column 3:

     Particularly nice for a traveleress were the dark wine (or blue) rayon-and-silk satin P. J.’s, piped in white, and man-tailored-to-a-tee; only $2.

   • 2005, “In the Fairy Café des Oiseaux”, in Peter Bush, transl., A Cock-Eyed Comedy: Starring Friar Bugeo Montesino and Other Fairies of Motley Feather and Fortune, San Francisco, Calif.: City Lights Books, translation of Carajicomedia by Juan Goytisolo, →ISBN, page 147:

     I’d been invited to the USSR (in the days when I was a fellow-traveler or traveleress), to the commemoration of a titanic Caucasian poet by the name of Rustaveli.