pedestrianess
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
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."
Etymology
From pedestrian + -ess.