New Zealandress

New Zealander +‎ -ess

• Rhymes: -ɛs

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, 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, 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, page 92:

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

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

• New Zealand

• Aotearoan
• Maori
• pakeha