Quakeress [kwey-ker-is] ExamplesWord Origin noun
- a woman or girl who is a Quaker.
Origin of Quakeress First recorded in 1715–25; Quaker + -ess Usage note See -ess. Examples from the Web for quakeress Historical Examples of quakeress
You look like a Quakeress but no one expects you to act like one to-night.
Anna Balmer Myers
We cant have that sort of thing in the house, with the demure severity of a Quakeress.
G. B. Stern
Mrs. Fry was a Quakeress, well known at London for her charity.
Memoirs of the Duchesse De Dino
Duchesse De Dino
Had she not an eye to her husband’s former alliance with the quakeress, and the Duke of York’s marriage in Italy?
Lady Anne Hamilton
An inmate of that house showed them over this one, dressed as a Quakeress.
Mrs. Henry Wood