Meaning of velocipedestrienne | Babel Free

Definitions

A female velocipedestrian.

archaic

Examples

“What is wanted in this respect⟳ is a dress that shall be suitable for either riding or walking. This, we think⟳, has also been achieved, and that by a lady. Let⟳ us try⟳ to describe⟳ the dress for a velocipedestrienne.”

“Ladies, in riding the bicycle, commonly use⟳ the modest and appropriate costume worn by them in calisthenic exercises and in the gymnasium. Another very suitable dress for the velocipedestrienne has been thus described[…]”

“When a lady velocipedes she destroys all this kind of subtile interest⟳, and thereby loosens one of the sweetest and firmest bonds of existence. Every velocipedestrienne ought to compelled to wear⟳ blue stockings.”

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