Meaning

(nonstandard) A female auctioneer..

Example Sentences

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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When Should You Use Auctioneeress?

Use auctioneeress when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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