New Yorkeress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: New Yorkeresses
form: New-Yorkeress
Etymology: From New Yorker + -ess.
Senses: examples: text: But—(see our European corresponde to-day)—but—the authoress of the hooped circle, the Empress Eugénie, has appeared in public without hoops. A revolution is in prospect, to which ’93 is pale! Hoops, avaunt! Down on your knees, feminine provincialdom, and hear the resistless ukase of the Empress Eugénie! New Yorkeresses, obey! Off with your hoops! So much for the swelling sham-!
ref: 1857, Porter’s Spirit of the Times: A Chronicle of the Turf, Field Sports, Literature and the Stage, page 26, column 2:
text: Bulls! had you have visited Central Park when the New Yorkeresses were on the ice, you would have seen where the dear Little Slippers were.
ref: 1861, Vanity Fair, volume third, New York: Louis H. Stephens, page 125, column 2:
text: “I thought of going up to the English chapel outside the Popolo, to see a pretty New-Yorkeress,” said the latter;[…]
ref: 1863, Henry P. Leland, Americans in Rome, New York: Charles T. Evans, page 34:
text: RETTY Fraülein Margaret asks me to go to church with her. She is not a New Yorker—or, as Webster would probably say,—a New Yorkeress.
ref: 1870, Punchinello, page 86, column 1:
text: The lady was not pretty, and she was not, Isabel thought, dressed in the perfect taste of Boston; but she owned frankly to herself that the New-Yorkeress was stylish, undeniably effective.
ref: 1871, The Atlantic Monthly: A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics, volume XXVIII, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, late Ticknor & Fields, and Fields, Osgood, & Co., page 32, column 1:
text: Imagine the scene that Broadway would present were New Yorkeresses in the habit of spending their papas’ and husbands’ money when, to be poetical, / ‘The night with misty mantle spread / ’Gins dark the day and dim the azure skies.’
ref: 1871, Lippincott’s Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, volume VIII, Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott and Co., page 573, column 2:
text: Where is the New Yorker in the fifties, or the New Yorkeress of uncertain age, who has not had a good time at Niblo’s?
ref: 1886, Frank Leslie’s Popular Monthly, volume 21, page 3, column 1:
text: Nevertheless, we do not recall that it was a newspaper which gave currency to obsolete words like “commensals” or extraordinary ones like “vastated,” or called a woman who lives in New York a “New Yorkeress,” or described a man as having a “plangent” voice, or referred to a table-d’hôte dinner as being “prefatorily furnished” with olives.
ref: [1892, Current Literature, volume 10, page 117:
text: They had not the New-Yorkeress air; they had nothing of the stylishness which Ray saw in the other women about him, shabby or splendid; their hats looked as if they had been trimmed at home, and their simple gowns as if their wearers had invented and made them up themselves, after no decided fashion, but after a taste of their own which he thought good.
ref: 1892, Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, volume 84, page 611, column 2:
text: But Mr. Howells’s Americanisms are mild and moderate, and only here and there do we meet with such words as “disoccupation” or a “New Yorkeress.”
ref: [1894, The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science, and Art, volume 78, page 689, column 2:
text: If a New Yorker is polite it is because he has either a gold-brick or a gaspipe up his sleeve; but it is the strange New Yorkeress who is preeminently to be shunned. That is, if one wishes, to have any claim at all to wisdom. / The best thing to do with a strange woman—in any city—is to leave your coattails in her hand and flee. The more innocent she seems, the louder you should yell for a cop.
ref: 1921, Adventure, volume 29, page 52:
text: Its heroine is Micheline, a New Yorkeress of Peruvian origin.
ref: 1960, New Statesman, volume 59, page 20, column 1:
text: A good many more ess feminine nouns jolt the mid-twentieth century reader of Howells. In Their Wedding Journey, the leading characters, the Marches, encounter a New Yorkeress; years later in Their Silver Wedding Journey they are guided through a European church by a vergeress. In Mrs. Farrell there is a brief mention of a “St. Louis lawyeress,” a term which today would seem as incongruous as a buggy-hitching weight in an Oldsmobile.
ref: [1960, The Georgia Review, volume 14, page 385:
text: She has all the grace and perfection of taste which distinguishes the real New Yorkeress (Pardon the violation of Webster); & is otherwise a sweet, unaffected & true-hearted girl.
ref: 1963, Clarence A. Glasrud, Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen, page 48:
glosses: A female New Yorker.