New Englandress

Definitions

A female New Englander.

rare

Examples

“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.”

“But we got acquainted, and are friends, and I am glad of it and shall be proud of my lyrical clanswoman and New Englandress.”

“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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