pedestrianess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pedestrianesses
Etymology: From pedestrian + -ess.
Senses: examples: text: A Pedestrian'''ess.—A widow upwards of 60 years of age, betted last week, to walk 92 miles in 24 hours.
ref: 1827 January 6, The Honduras Gazette and Commercial Advertiser, volume I, number 28, Belize:
text: The spectators were not parsimonious in rewarding the labours of the pedestrianess.
ref: 1827 May 10, The Long-Island Star, volume XVIII, number 49, Brooklyn, N.Y.: Alden Spooner:
text: Mrs. M’Mullen, the pedestrianess, whose performances we recorded last year, commenced on Monday evening, a more arduous undertaking.
ref: 1827 June 16, The York Herald, and General Advertiser, number 1918, York:
text: Portfolios repacked, and horses remounted, on we went again, meeting quite numerous trains of travelling parties—camelestrians, donkeyteers, pedestrians, horsemen, and poneymen; and then poneymen, and horsemen, and donkeyteers, and camelestrians, again. Aye, and here are horsewomen besides ourselves, too; and mulewomen, and pedestrianesses, &c.
ref: 1856, Lady Emmeline Stuart Wortley, The Sweet South, volume II, London: […] George Barclay, […], page 218:
text: Bertha Von Hillern, the pedestrianess, is lionized by Boston.
ref: 1877 January 19, Cherokee County Republican, volume V, number 25, Columbus, Kan.:
text: Up there in Auburn, New York, an esteemed pedestrian, Reginald Heber Tubbs, agreed to walk against an esteemed pedestrianess, Miss Elsa Von Blumen.
ref: 1879 January 20, The Times, number 1225, Philadelphia, Pa.:
text: The most sole-stirring entertainments of the day are those given by champion pedestrians and pedestrianesses.
ref: 1879 February 28, ““Press”-ed”, in The Canton Press, volume XVII, number 35 (whole 863), Canton, Mo.:
text: A bright, genial day on Saturday last, brought more than the average crowd of teams and wagons on our streets, and covered the sidewalks with pedestrians, and pedestrianesses, especially.
ref: 1879 March 26, The Wichita Weekly Beacon, volume 7, number 17, Wichita, Kan.:
text: In the women’s go-as-you please match in Madison Square Garden, Howard, at noon, was leading with a score of 367 miles, Tobias 360, Massciot 258, Madam Anderson 342 Ceretio is the last in the line of the nineteen pedestrianesses with a record of 127 miles.
ref: 1879 December 22, “New York Notes”, in Freeport Daily Bulletin, volume III, number 77, Freeport, Ill.:
text: A pedestrianess in Boston has lost the race on account of a sprained ankle.
ref: 1886 April 14, Puck, volume XIX, number 475, New York, N.Y.: Keppler & Schwarzmann, page 107:
text: But, while these coats for travel are envelopingly long, the newest garment for street pedestrianesses are jaunty short jackets, fitting snugly to the figure, and sometimes really constituting the bodice of the dress.
ref: 1887 July 20, “Fashions of the Season. The Proper Thing to Wear at the Present Time. Traveling Dresses and Jackets—A Silk and Wool Toilet—Faille Francaise Costume—Fancies.”, in Streator Daily Free Press, volume VII, number 2060, Streator, Ill.:
text: Another sight that became painfully frequent was to observe some nicely dressed man or woman walking along unsuspecting any danger, when suddenly some of the farmers’ horses hitched to the edge of the sidewalk would kick about ehree^([sic]) quarts of mud and green scum into the air and it would decend^([sic]) upon the raiment of the pedestrian, or pedestrianess.
ref: 1891 July 12, “Something About the Mud”, in Salina Daily Republican, volume 3, number 177, Salina, Kan.:
text: Pedestrians and pedestrianesses clung tenaciously to close quarters, and so did the latter’s apparel.
ref: 1911 March 15, “Yours Not to Reason Why the Wind Blows So Doggone High”, in Daily Journal-Gazette, thirty-sixth year, number 304, Mattoon, Ill.:
text: The men have all the sidewalk now, / There is no place for us to walk! / But though we must to insult bow, / We’re women, and at least we’ll talk! / A PEDESTRIANESS.
ref: 1911 August 4, “Sidewalks”, in Chattanooga Daily Times, volume XXXXII, number 233, Chattanooga, Tenn., page 4:
text: Mrs. Dave Beach, the New York pedestrianess, reached Schenectady on Friday on a diet of fruit salad.
ref: 1912 April 22, The Tribune-Republican, volume 84, number 19, Scranton, Pa., page 8:
text: The pedestrianesses, Rose Hout, Maggie Ramsey, Irene Ellsworth, Isis Brewer, and Coral and Ruth Alderson walked to Montrose last Saturday evening, returning on the “Jersey”.
ref: 1912 December 12, The New Era, volume XIII, number 2, Formoso, Kan.:
text: This makes up a little bit for our great sorrow of having never happened to be present, or noticing, when a pedestrianess went by without stockings.
ref: 1927 April 16, “Probably An Opera Singer”, in Tampa Morning Tribune, 35th year, number 106, Tampa, Fla., page six:
text: The pedestrian who jaywalks and, jaywalking sluggishly, turns on the automobile driver a cold glare as if to say, Hit me if you dare: that pedestrian or, as mostly happens, pedestrianess, may the automobilist splash with rainwater and mud and be accounted by the law for that a just and proper citizen.
ref: 1939 September 7, “Verboten List”, in Dayton Daily News, volume 63, number 17, Dayton, Ohio, page twenty:
glosses: A female pedestrian.
Synonyms: pedestrienne