New Englishwoman

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Noun

New Englishwoman (plural New Englishwomen)

  1. (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, 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, 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?

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