New Zealandress
English edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -ɛs
Noun edit
New Zealandress (plural New Zealandresses)
- (rare, chiefly obsolete) A female New Zealander.
- 1866, John Alexander Wilson, The Story of Te Waharoa … A Chapter in Early New Zealand History[1], →ISBN, page 54:
- …her last despairing, supplicating look, as she was taken a few yards off, and killed, by that virago, Mrs. Haupapa—the fiendish New Zealandress.
- 1912 December 14, Mrs. Leopold Myers, “Pankhurst and Party.”, in New Zealand Herald[2], page 1:
- Being an easily enfranchised New Zealandress, I found myself lodged midway between the two camps…
- 1928, Marc Chadourne, Vasco[3], →ISBN, page 87:
- Neptunes in hempen wigs waltzed with the lean New Zealandress, who had stuck flowers from a hat into her fair hair, to impersonate Oceania.
- 1977, Nina and Jim Munro, A Taste of New Zealand in Food and Pictures, →ISBN, page 92:
- The New Zealandress is as sports-minded as her brother…
Hypernyms edit
- New Zealander
- flax-stick (informal)
- Kiwi (informal)
Related terms edit
Translations edit
female New Zealander
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