vendress

== English == === Etymology === From vendor +‎ -ess. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈvɛndɹɪs/ Hyphenation: vend‧ress === Noun === vendress (plural vendresses) (rare) Female equivalent of vendor: a woman or girl who vends; a female vendor. Synonym: saleswoman 1834, Peregrine Reedpen [pseud. for P. Fitzallan], Our Town [of Bishop’s Waltham]: or, Rough Sketches of Character, Manners, &c., London: Richard Bentley, 8 New Burlington Street, volume I of II, chapter viii: “The Bishop of Burleigh”, page 182: Imprimis, he took unto himself a wife. He married a ci-devant vendress of tape, pins, and other commodities of a like nature. 2012, Don Romesburg, “Longevity and Limits in Rae Bourbon’s Life in Motion” in: Trystan T. Cotten (editor), Transgender Migrations: The Bodies, Borders, and Politics of Transition, Routledge, →ISBN (hardback), →ISBN (paperback), →ISBN (e-book), page 127: In Bella Donna (1923), Bourbon played a flower vendress and a camel driver. ==== Translations ====