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New Zealandress en · NOUN

Etymology

From New Zealander + -ess.

Meanings

1. (obsolete, rare) A female New Zealander.
   • Being an easily enfranchised New Zealandress, I found myself lodged midway between the two camps… 1912 December 14, Mrs. Leopold Myers, “Pankhurst and Party.”, in New Zealand Herald, page 1:
   • The New Zealandress is as sports-minded as her brother… 1977, Nina and Jim Munro, A Taste of New Zealand in Food and Pictures, →ISBN, page 92:
   • …her last despairing, supplicating look, as she was taken a few yards off, and killed, by that virago, Mrs. Haupapa—the fiendish New Zealandress. 1866, John Alexander Wilson, The Story of Te Waharoa … A Chapter in Early New Zealand History, →ISBN, page 54:
   • Neptunes in hempen wigs waltzed with the lean New Zealandress, who had stuck flowers from a hat into her fair hair, to impersonate Oceania. 1928, Marc Chadourne, Vasco, →ISBN, page 87:

Forms

Hypernyms

Kiwi · New Zealander · flax-stick

Relateds

New Zealand · Maori · Aotearoan · pakeha

Translations (7)

pl Nowozelandka (female New Zealander) · nl Nieuw-Zeelandse (female New Zealander) · fr Néo-Zélandaise (female New Zealander) · ro neozeelandeză (female New Zealander) · es neozelandesa (female New Zealander) · ru новозела́ндка (female New Zealander) · de Neuseeländerin (female New Zealander)