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New Englandress en · NOUN

Etymology

From New Englander + -ess.

Meanings

1. (rare) A female New Englander.
   • Of course, with romance for a motif, he hurries them away from the republic to take refuge under the shadows and among the traces of a foreign presence on the continent—not missing, however, a shot at folly as it flies by train or steamer, nor a double stroke of satire both for the great city and the wide West, and for the misliking glance his bright little New Englandress gives them, nor an epigram or two—we hope they may draw blood—on the clerks and ticket-takers we bow down to. 1872 March, “Current Literature”, in The Galaxy, volume XIV, number 3, section ““Their Wedding Journey.” By W. D. Howells. Boston: James R. Osgood & Co. 1872.”, pages 426–427, columns 2–1:
   • She [Kathleen Pierson] is now a successful romance novelist using Sioux themes and settings, and seems to be attempting to lead the way toward harmony and assimilation between the races, with interracial love her major theme. This is not a new idea for modern white New Englandresses. 1996, Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, “American Indian Intellectualism and the New Indian Story”, in American Indian Quarterly, University of Nebraska Press, pages 60–61:
   • But we got acquainted, and are friends, and I am glad of it and shall be proud of my lyrical clanswoman and New Englandress. 1899 April 16, Edmund Clarence Stedman, To Martha Gilbert Dickinson; republished as Laura Stedman, George M. Gould, “An American Anthology”, in Life and Letters of Edmund Clarence Stedman, volume two, New York, N.Y.: Moffat, Yard and Company, 1910, page 260:

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