travelleress
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "It was not the fashion to ride in omnibuses, and so she sacrificed her personal appearance in order to impress on her fellow-travellers—or more especially her “fellow-travelleresses”—that she was not used to such conveyances, and expected every moment to be overturned."
- "The night journey was an interchange of sleeping and grumbling, with a little sickliness now and then, by way of variety, on the part of some of my fellow-travelleresses."
- "It is stated that a well-known London firm has decided to employ lady commercial travellers. I should suppose that the success of this attempt will depend, in some measure, upon the share of good looks possessed by the travelleresses."
- "A much more common figure is the merely wrong-headed and cantankerous traveller—and particularly travelleress, if that word may be permitted—who wrangles over everything, and will not recognize the fact that dishonest Custom-house officials, swindling landlords, and irritating police regulations are inevitable evils in foreign parts."
- "They are however ladylike & plucky as travelleresses."
- "Mrs. Sheldon, the African travelleress, says “she was favourably received not only by the inhabitants but even by the crocodiles.”"