Meaning of travelleress | Babel Free

Definitions

A female traveller.

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Examples

“It was not the fashion to ride⟳ in omnibuses, and so she sacrificed her personal appearance in order⟳ to impress⟳ on her fellow-travellers—or more especially her “fellow-travelleresses”—that she was not used to such conveyances, and expected every moment to be overturned.”

“The night journey was an interchange of sleeping and grumbling, with a little sickliness now and then, by way of variety, on the part of some of my fellow-travelleresses.”

“It is stated that a well-known London firm has decided to employ⟳ lady commercial travellers. I should suppose⟳ that the success of this attempt⟳ will depend⟳, in some measure⟳, upon the share⟳ of good looks possessed by the travelleresses.”

“A much more common figure⟳ is the merely wrong-headed and cantankerous traveller—and particularly travelleress, if that word may be permitted—who wrangles over everything, and will not recognize the fact that dishonest Custom-house officials, swindling landlords, and irritating police regulations are inevitable evils in foreign parts.”

“They are however ladylike & plucky as travelleresses.”

“Mrs. Sheldon, the African travelleress, says “she was favourably received not only by the inhabitants but even by the crocodiles.””

“It will be quite a little occasion; and what will make⟳ it a golden one will be for you and Mrs. Fields to be there just from half past five to six, and allow⟳ some of the travelleresses to be presented to you both.”

“She [Fanny Crosby] is nearly 80 years of age, and is known as the great American Travelleress.”

“When I looked up, I beheld an apparition, as if summoned by my thoughts, for I immediately recognised a Time Travelleress!”

“I’ been invited to the USSR (in the days when I was a fellow-traveller or travelleress), to the commemoration of a titanic Caucasian poet by the name⟳ of Rustaveli.”

“Old Mother Shipton, the Yorkshire wise woman, had she been a time travelleress from the future, cast⟳ back and trapped in the past, her only relaxation the prophecies of what she knew must surely come⟳ to pass⟳?”

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