New Englishwoman
English
Noun
New Englishwoman (plural New Englishwomen)
- (rare, historical) A female inhabitant of New England.
- Synonym: New Englandress
- 1901, Alice Morse Earle, Old Time Gardens, Newly Set Forth, New York: Macmillan, OCLC 1049959330, page 3:
- And soon all sojourners who bore news back to England of the New-Englishmen and New-Englishwomen, told of ample store of gardens. Ere a year had passed hopeful John Winthrop wrote, “My Deare Wife, wee are here in a Paradise.”
- 1974, Katharine Moore, Victorian Wives, New York: St. Martin's Press, OCLC 1153458113, page xxviii:
- The three American wives included each achieved a degree of independence, illustrative of the greater freedom allowed to New Englishwomen.
- 1992, Malcolm Lynch, The Dartmoor Yankee, Padstow: Tabb House, →ISBN, page 91:
- "It's not me, Sally. It was written by Anne Bradstreet."
[…]
"I can never match up them New Englishwomen, John. Just leave me alone!"
- 2020 September 7, NewsDesk, “Recap of “Lovecraft’s country”: night at the museum”, in ExBulletin, archived from the original on 2022-07-02:
- As a New Englishwoman, maybe she just wants to see the Red Sox win their most recent World Series in 1918?
Coordinate terms
- New Englishman
See also
- New English