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New Englandress
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English
Etymology
From en New Englander ess<id:female>.
Noun
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en rare A female New Englander.
en Current Literature The Galaxy March 1872 XIV 3 section ““Their Wedding Journey.” By W. D. Howells. Boston: James R. Osgood & Co. 1872.” 426–427 https://archive.org/details/sim_galaxy_1872-03_13_3/page/427/mode/1up?view=theater 2–1 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.
en w:Edmund Clarence Stedman To Martha Gilbert Dickinson 16 April 1899 Laura Stedman; w:George M. Gould An American Anthology Life and Letters of Edmund Clarence Stedman New York, N.Y. Moffat, Yard and Company 1910 two 260 https://archive.org/details/lifeletters02steduoft/page/260/mode/1up?view=theater But we got acquainted, and are friends, and I am glad of it and shall be proud of my lyrical clanswoman and New Englandress.
en w:Elizabeth Cook-Lynn American Indian Intellectualism and the New Indian Story w:American Indian Quarterly w:University of Nebraska Press 1996 60–61 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.
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