Quakeress

[ kwey-ker-is ]

noun

, Older Use.

1. a woman or girl who is a Quaker:

   In earlier days, Quakeresses wore colored aprons of green or blue, but preferably of the former color.

Gender Note

See -ess.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Quakeress¹

First recorded in 1715–25; Quaker + -ess

Example Sentences

When she came down, looking like a pretty Quakeress in her dove-colored suit and straw bonnet tied with white, they all gathered about her to say ‘good-by’, as tenderly as if she had been going to make the grand tour.

From Literature

It seems to be the fate of all French reformers to rush suddenly to extremes; and we must remember that George Sand was not a Bristol Quakeress or a Boston transcendentalist, but a passionate Frenchwoman, the descendant of one of the maddest votaries of love and war who ever stormed across the stage of European history.

From Project Gutenberg

I have said that Mrs. Opie was a Quakeress.

From Project Gutenberg

This industrious and pious Quakeress, who seems to have possessed all the excellencies defined in Solomon's inventory of the virtuous woman, lived more than four score years, an ornament to her sex and a blessing to the race.

From Project Gutenberg

A lady is now living in the city of Buffalo, whose benevolent exertions, in her restricted sphere, would compare favorably with those of the celebrated Quakeress whose mission at Newgate justified, for once, at least, the use of angel as an adjective qualifying woman.

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