mail lady

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English

Etymology

From mail +‎ lady.

Noun

mail lady (plural mail ladies)

  1. (informal) A female postal worker.
    • 1988, Flannery O'Connor, Sally Fitzgerald, The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor‎, page 142:
      The mail lady just arrived...with 3 letters from you which I was cheered to get.
    • 1993, Claudia Allen, She's Always Liked the Girls Best: Lesbian Plays‎, page 142:
      The mail lady enters, singing to herself, the proverbial bull in a china shop.
    • 1994, W. A. Mathieu, The Musical Life‎:
      ...put up the flag for the mail lady.
    • 1996, Rick Bass, “Almost Lake Hibernation”, in The Book of Yaak‎, page 17:
      In the winter, you can hear the mail coming longe before you can see the mail lady...She'll come to the window, too, and watch the mail lady take our letters...out of the snow-covered mailbox
    • 2003, Richard Barcalow, Marc McLemore, and Daniel Stiles, “Enter, the Mail Lady! 16:41”, in Hell's Ambrosia‎, page 55:
      ...such an action might put the mail lady in danger. His first priority was protecting the mail lady.
    • 2004, Michael Feldman, Something I Said?‎, page 10:
      "That was close," I quip to the mail lady.
    • 2007, Connie May Fowler, Remembering Blue: A Novel‎:
      But after Miss Shriver passed (she had been Lethe's mail lady for thirty years), Vanessa took her place. Not long after becoming our mail lady, she married Bud Crawford, Carrabelle's city attorney.

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woman who delivers the post or mail — see postwoman
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