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New_Zealandress

New Zealandress

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New Zealandress (plural New Zealandresses)

  1. (rare) A female New Zealander.
    • 1866, John Alexander Wilson, The Story of Te Waharoa … A Chapter in Early New Zealand History, ISBN 9782277802129, 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 9782710306054, 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 0589010247, page 92:
      The New Zealandress is as sports-minded as her brother…

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