Meaning

(dated) A female pedestrian..

Example Sentences

A Pedestrian'''ess.—A widow upwards of 60 years of age, betted last week, to walk 92 miles in 24 hours.

The spectators were not parsimonious in rewarding the labours of the pedestrianess.

Mrs. M’Mullen, the pedestrianess, whose performances we recorded last year, commenced on Monday evening, a more arduous undertaking.

Portfolios repacked, and horses remounted, on we went again, meeting quite numerous trains of travelling parties—camelestrians, donkeyteers, pedestrians, horsemen, and poneymen; and then poneymen, and horsemen, and donkeyteers, and camelestrians, again. Aye, and here are horsewomen besides ourselves, too; and mulewomen, and pedestrianesses, &c.

Bertha Von Hillern, the pedestrianess, is lionized by Boston.

Up there in Auburn, New York, an esteemed pedestrian, Reginald Heber Tubbs, agreed to walk against an esteemed pedestrianess, Miss Elsa Von Blumen.

The most sole-stirring entertainments of the day are those given by champion pedestrians and pedestrianesses.

A bright, genial day on Saturday last, brought more than the average crowd of teams and wagons on our streets, and covered the sidewalks with pedestrians, and pedestrianesses, especially.

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• pedestrianesses

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