auctioneeress

From auctioneer +‎ -ess.

auctioneeress (plural auctioneeresses)

1. (nonstandard) A female auctioneer.
   • 1837, Thomas Ingoldsby, The Ingoldsby Legends; Or, Mirth and Marvels, volume I, Philadelphia: Willis P. Hazard, published 1856, page 57:

     I have little news to tell you, except that Mrs. ⸺, the auctioneeress, if there be such a word, is likely to die, and that the sorrowing widower, in posse, is said to have already made arrangements to take the beautiful (Oh! that I could add prudent) Miss Foote, as her successor.

   • 1871 February 26, The Tennessean, page 4:

     The square was, as usual of Saturdays, filled on yesterday with auctioneers and auctioneeresses, selling prize candies, horses and perfumes.

   • 1875 October 17, Arkansas Gazette, page 4:

     Mrs. Coy took the platform, and as an auctioneeress, with her glib tongue, ready wit and charming manners, […]

   • 1896 July 25, The Wasp, page 6, column 1:

     Tuesday afternoon Maxine Elliott of the Frawley Company appeared as an auctioneeress.

   • 1900 January 20, Windsor and Richmond Gazette, page 13, column 1:

     At Melbourne last week, Miss L. T. White received an auctioneer’s license. She is the first lady auctioneer in Australia. If some horrid man only starts the cry of “a mouse” when she mounts the ostrum, it will be case of “going, going—gone” with the fair auctioneeress.

   • 1902 June 11, Colorado College, The Tiger, volume IV, number 35, page 3, column 2:

     The Senior girls have been having an Auction of household goods, etc., at Ticknor Hall during the past week. Angie S. Kuhl, Auctioneeress.

   • 1904, Brother Jacques, translation of Frère Jacques by Charles Paul de Kock, 1822, page 16:

     The heroic and free-and-easy manner of Madame Volenville’s dancing created a sensation; a confused murmur ran through the salon and the young men left the card-table for the place where our auctioneeress was performing.

   • 1905, The Rosary Magazine, volume 27, page 290, column 1:

     One by one the articles were disposed of by the amateur auctioneeress, and Perry was alone with her thoughts.

   • 1907 March 2, The New York Times, page 9:

     AS THE AUCTIONEERESS Marie Dressier Says She’s a Business.

   • 1914 July 1, The Argus, page 20, column 3:

     Mr. FRED NIBLO / Has Kindly Volunteered to Conduct / A SALE by AUCTION / In perfect good faith, as an accessory after the act, of Fancy Articles, and Useful Goods Stolen, Borrowed, or Bought by the Society Belles of the Ladies’ Committee. He will be assisted by a bevy of / FASCINATING AUCTIONEERESSES, / Selected from the Leading Theatres, / “Cards to View on Application.”

   • 1918, the students of the State Normal College (Bowling Green, Ohio), The Beegee, “Beegee Jingles”, “How We Got Our Flag (Flora Mae Shepard, Ex. ’18.)”, page 139:

     And when the pile quite large had grown, / The auctioneeress rose, / And called for bids as from the pile / With tears some gift she chose, / For she could not help thinking / Of sacrifices great / Which she and all her friends had made / The flag fund to create.

   • 1918, American Shorthorn Breeder’s Association, The Shorthorn in America, page 14, column 3:

     Several of three occupations have little appeal for women—but I dare say that some day an indubitably clever auctioneeress will mark that statement as reactionary.

   • 1919, The Microcosm, volume ten, Boston, Massachusetts: Simmons College, page 186:

     Marion Fitch was the coy and persuasive Auctioneeress, who lured the dollars from the audience with the same ease and rapidity that a magician draws rabbits out of a silk hat.

   • 1919, Angela Brazil, The Head Girl at the Gables, New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, published 1920, pages 124, 126:

     The amateur auctioneer—or rather auctioneeress—seized upon the first thing that came to hand, which happened to be one of Claire’s discarded dolls. […] “Time’s getting on, and we put up the shutters at five,” continued the loquacious auctioneeress.

   • 1920, The Sabbath Recorder, volume 88, page 377, column 1:

     The “auctioneeress” was a young lady of the community and she proved that a girl might sell pies as well as a man.

   • 1921 February 6, New-York Tribune, page 8:

     Winsome Pearl White, popular heroine of many a screen thriller, who was the auctioneeress at the Retail Millinery Association’s big show at the Astor last Wednesday.