# marineress
## English
### Etymology

From mariner +‎ -ess.

### Noun

marineress (plural marineresses)
* (dated) A female mariner.
** 1846, J[ames] Fenimore Cooper, “Captain Spike; or, The Islets of the Gulf”, in Bentley’s Miscellany, volume XX, London: Richard Bentley, pages 543–544:About nine, however, the good woman came on deck, intending to take a look at the weather, like a skilful marineress as she was, before she turned in.
** 1869 April 24, “Personal”, in Harper’s Bazaar: A Repository of Fashion, Pleasure, and Instruction, volume II, number 17, New York, N.Y., page 259:That bold little marineress, Mrs. Captain Maguire, who brought the ship Chieftain (of Philadelphia) into New York from Calcutta, has been presented by the underwriters on the vessel in Boston and Philadelphia with a check for $1000.
** 1880, Andrew Hamilton, “The Occupation of West Prussia”, in Rheinsberg: Memorials of Frederick the Great and Prince Henry of Prussia, volume II, London: John Murray, page 80:Shortly they came in sight of a sailor’s house constructed of reeds and rushes and ‘uncommonly artfully covered with a huge net; inside of which house a number of mariners and marineresses were dancing their rustic (!) dances.’
** 1891 July 8, “Ditties in Doses up to Date. (And Tips for Topical Songs.)”, in Fun, volume LIV, number 1365, London: […] (for the Proprietors) by W. Lay, page 16:A Marine Medley, in Reply to the recent query, “Should Women be Sailors?” […] Air—“Ye Mariners of England.” We marineresses of England / Will gaily guard our seas; / But we shall flag, with a thousand fears, / When up there springs a breeze. / In the hornpipe (or some nice sea-waltz) / We’ll trip with festive toe; / But we’ll feel quite melted “salts” / If the stormy winds do blow!
** 1897 April 24, “The Swift “Augusta”: A Description of Frank J. Moffitt’s New Launch”, in The Wave, volume XVI, number 17, San Francisco, page 9:Admitting the coast to be a bit dangerous for extended tours, the bay is veritably a succession of land-locked harbors, in which the water is sufficiently smooth to make easy sailing for even the most sensitive of marineresses.
** 1898 November 4, “This Busy World”, in Manchester Weekly Times, number 2152, page 5:But, of course, the crew of the Hot Cross Bun are nothing to the marineress whose sex has only just been discovered.
** 1909, Diogo do Couto, Donald Ferguson, transl., “The History of Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to 1600 A.D.”, in Journal of the Ceylon Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, volume XX, number 60, Colombo: H. M. Richards, decade VIII, chapter xii (The king of Pegú sends to ask of the king of Ceylaõ a daughter in marriage), page 247:[…]; and that in which the queen was to embark had the awning and cabin all overlaid with gold, and was equipped with beautiful and richly attired women, who rowed better and more in stroke than the galley-slaves of Europe, and of these women the king had many in separate wards, and it is certain that they married one another, and lived in houses two and two like married couples: and I have spoken with several Portuguese who were captives in Siaõ, and chiefly with one Antonio Toscano, who was my neighbour and who still has sons in Goa, who said that they went many a time to see these wards of the marineresses, and that it was true that they were married to one another.
** 1931 February 3, “Junior League Uses Elephant To Help Sales”, in The Tampa Daily Times, thirty-eighth year, number 309, Tampa, Fla., pages one-A and ten-A:Then out Lafayette street, until the last of the hardy marineresses left the slow but safe craft.
** 1934 May 16, Rob Eden [pen name of Robert Ferdiand Burkhardt and his wife Eve], “Jennifer Hale: Nita Says That Kent’s Interest in Mary Will Anger Mrs. Severn”, in The Des Moines Register, Des Moines, Iowa, pages two–A:“[…] I’ll leave that until later—until we get on the boat. Know how to run one?” Mary said she didn’t. “Well, I’ll teach you, and when I get through with you, you’ll be a master marineress.”
** 1936, The Australian Museum Magazine, page 210:But it does not “suckle its new-born on milk” as was asserted in a book much read a few years ago in America and written by an intrepid marineress who had never been further to sea than to the seashore resorts around the mouth of New York Harbour.

#### Related terms

* ancient marineress