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English
Etymology
From vendor + -ess.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈvɛndɹɪs/
- Hyphenation: vend‧ress
Noun
vendress (plural vendresses)
- (rare) female equivalent of vendor; a woman or girl who vends; a female vendor.
- 1834, Peregrine Reedpen , Our Town : or, Rough Sketches of Character, Manners, &c., London: Richard Bentley, 8 New Burlington Street, volume I of II, chapter viii: “The Bishop of Burleigh”, page 182:
- Imprimis, he took unto himself a wife. He married a ci-devant vendress of tape, pins, and other commodities of a like nature.
- 2012, Don Romesburg, “Longevity and Limits in Rae Bourbon’s Life in Motion” in: Trystan T. Cotten (editor), Transgender Migrations: The Bodies, Borders, and Politics of Transition, Routledge, →ISBN (hardback), →ISBN (paperback), →ISBN (e-book), page 127:
- In Bella Donna (1923), Bourbon played a flower vendress and a camel driver.
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