travelleress

English

Alternative forms

• traveleress

Etymology

From traveller +‎ -ess.

Noun

travelleress (plural travelleresses)

1. (rare) A female traveller.
   • 1865, Thomas Hood, “Pleasant Days at Hampton”, in Captain Masters’s Children. A Novel., volume III, London: Sampson Low, Son, and Marston, page 55:

     It was not the fashion to ride in omnibuses, and so she sacrificed her personal appearance in order to impress on her fellow-travellers—or more especially her “fellow-travelleresses”—that she was not used to such conveyances, and expected every moment to be overturned.

   • 1869, J[ohn] T[aylor] Coleridge, “Tutorship and Second Residence at Oriel.—Death of Mrs. Keble.—1818—1823.”, in A Memoir of the Rev. John Keble, M. A., Late Vicar of Hursley, 2nd edition, volume I, New York, N.Y.: Pott & Amery, page 121:

     The night journey was an interchange of sleeping and grumbling, with a little sickliness now and then, by way of variety, on the part of some of my fellow-travelleresses.

   • 1885 March 15, “Editorial Notes”, in The Merchant & Manufacturer: An Export Trade Journal Between England and the Colonies, volume VII, number 133, page 53, column 2:

     It is stated that a well-known London firm has decided to employ lady commercial travellers. I should suppose that the success of this attempt will depend, in some measure, upon the share of good looks possessed by the travelleresses.

   • 1886 August 21, “H.B.M. Consul”, in The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science, and Art, volume 62, number 1,608, London, page 253, column 1:

     A much more common figure is the merely wrong-headed and cantankerous traveller—and particularly travelleress, if that word may be permitted—who wrangles over everything, and will not recognize the fact that dishonest Custom-house officials, swindling landlords, and irritating police regulations are inevitable evils in foreign parts.

   • a. 1888, Edward Lear, [Letter]; republished as Letters of Edward Lear to Chichester Fortescue (Lord Carlingford) and Frances Countess Waldegrave, London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1909, page 200:

     They are however ladylike & plucky as travelleresses.

   • 1891 September 23, Judy: The London Serio-Comic Journal, page 153, column 2:

     Mrs. Sheldon, the African travelleress, says “she was favourably received not only by the inhabitants but even by the crocodiles.”

   • 1893 February 7, [Letter]; republished as Transatlantic Women: Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers and Great Britain, University of New Hampshire Press, 2012, →ISBN, page 164:

     It will be quite a little occasion; and what will make it a golden one will be for you and Mrs. Fields to be there just from half past five to six, and allow some of the travelleresses to be presented to you both.

   • 1899 July 27, “Perkasie News”, in The Central News, volume XIX, number 947, Perkasie, Pa., column 1:

     She [Fanny Crosby] is nearly 80 years of age, and is known as the great American Travelleress.

   • 1995 September 15, Lucy Sussex, “A fit future for women with vision”, in The Age, 141st year, number 43,773, Melbourne, Vic., page 12, column 2:

     When I looked up, I beheld an apparition, as if summoned by my thoughts, for I immediately recognised a Time Travelleress!

   • 2002, Peter Bush, transl., A Cock-Eyed Comedy: Starring Friar Bugeo Montesino and Other Faeries of Motley Feather and Fortune, Serpent’s Tail, translation of Carajicomedia by Juan Goytisolo, →ISBN, page 151:

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

   • 2014, Bron Fane, Suspension, Gollancz, →ISBN:

     Old Mother Shipton, the Yorkshire wise woman, had she been a time travelleress from the future, cast back and trapped in the past, her only relaxation the prophecies of what she knew must surely come to pass?