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New Englishwoman en · NOUN
Meanings
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(historical, rare) A female inhabitant of New England.
The three American wives included each achieved a degree of independence, illustrative of the greater freedom allowed to New Englishwomen.
1974, Katharine Moore, Victorian Wives, New York: St. Martin's Press, →OCLC, page xxviii:As a New Englishwoman, maybe she just wants to see the Red Sox win their most recent World Series in 1918?
2020 September 7, NewsDesk, “Recap of “Lovecraft’s country”: night at the museum”, in ExBulletin, archived from the original on 02 Jul 2022:And soon all sojourners who bore news back to England of the New-Englishmen and New-Englishwomen, told of ample store of gardens. Ere a year had passed hopeful John Winthrop wrote, “My Deare Wife, wee are here in a Paradise.”
1901, Alice Morse Earle, Old Time Gardens, Newly Set Forth, New York: Macmillan, →OCLC, page 3:"It's not me, Sally. It was written by Anne Bradstreet."
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"I can never match up them New Englishwomen, John. Just leave me alone!"
1992, Malcolm Lynch, The Dartmoor Yankee, Padstow: Tabb House, →ISBN, page 91:
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New Englishman
Relateds
New English
Synonyms
New Englandress