Dictionary

vendress en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈvɛndɹɪs/

Etymology

From vendor + -ess.

Meanings

1. (feminine, form-of, rare) Female equivalent of vendor: a woman or girl who vends; a female vendor.
   form of vendor
   • Imprimis, he took unto himself a wife. He married a ci-devant vendress of tape, pins, and other commodities of a like nature. 1834, Peregrine Reedpen [pseud. for P. Fitzallan], Our Town [of Bishop’s Waltham]: or, Rough Sketches of Character, Manners, &c., London: Richard Bentley, 8 New Burlington Street, volume I of II, chapter viii: “The Bishop of Burleigh”, page 182
   • In Bella Donna (1923), Bourbon played a flower vendress and a camel driver. 2012, Don Romesburg, “Longevity and Limits in Rae Bourbon’s Life in Motion” in: Trystan T. Cotten (editor), Transgender Migrations: The Bodies, Borders, and Politics of Transition, Routledge (hardback) (paperback) (e-book), page 127

Forms

Synonyms

saleswoman

Translations (1)

kw gwerthores (a female that vends)