English

Noun

New Zealandress ‎(plural New Zealandresses)

1. (rare) A female New Zealander.
   • 1866, John Alexander Wilson, The Story of Te Waharoa … A Chapter in Early New Zealand History, ISBN 9782277802129, page 54:

     …her last despairing, supplicating look, as she was taken a few yards off, and killed, by that virago, Mrs. Haupapa—the fiendish New Zealandress.

   • 1912 December 14, Mrs. Leopold Myers, “Pankhurst and Party.”, in New Zealand Herald, page 1:

     Being an easily enfranchised New Zealandress, I found myself lodged midway between the two camps…

   • 1928, Marc Chadourne, Vasco, ISBN 9782710306054, page 87:

     Neptunes in hempen wigs waltzed with the lean New Zealandress, who had stuck flowers from a hat into her fair hair, to impersonate Oceania.

   • 1977, Nina and Jim Munro, A Taste of New Zealand in Food and Pictures, ISBN 0589010247, page 92:

     The New Zealandress is as sports-minded as her brother…

Hypernyms

• New Zealander
• flax-stick (informal)
• Kiwi (informal)

Related terms

• New Zealand

Translations

See also

• Aotearoan
• Maori
• pakeha