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English
Etymology
From New Zealander + -ess.
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Noun
New Zealandress (plural New Zealandresses)
- (rare, chiefly obsolete) A female New Zealander.
1866, John Alexander Wilson, The Story of Te Waharoa … A Chapter in Early New Zealand History, →ISBN, page 54:…her last despairing, supplicating look, as she was taken a few yards off, and killed, by that virago, Mrs. Haupapa—the fiendish New Zealandress.
1912 December 14, Mrs. Leopold Myers, “Pankhurst and Party.”, in New Zealand Herald, page 1:Being an easily enfranchised New Zealandress, I found myself lodged midway between the two camps…
1928, Marc Chadourne, Vasco, →ISBN, page 87:Neptunes in hempen wigs waltzed with the lean New Zealandress, who had stuck flowers from a hat into her fair hair, to impersonate Oceania.
1977, Nina and Jim Munro, A Taste of New Zealand in Food and Pictures, →ISBN, page 92:The New Zealandress is as sports-minded as her brother…
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