pioneeress

English

Etymology

From pioneer +‎ -ess.

Noun

pioneeress (plural pioneeresses)

1. A female pioneer.
   • 1855 March 1, Joe Furry, “Editorial Correspondence”, in The Plymouth Banner‎^[1], volume 4, number 5 (whole 161), Plymouth, Ind., published 19 April 1855:

     A very industrious(? pioneeress dug and sold six dollars worth of gold dust, but whether she was six days or as many weeks at it, I have not been informed;

   • 1855 July 14, “Our Old Betty”, in Chambers’s Journal of Popular Literature Science and Arts, volume IV, number 80, London: W. and R. Chambers, page 17:

     Her calling is very multifarious—one day, she goes out to nurse; another, to clean; on a third, she is engaged to wash; at one time, she has a house to let; at another, she is the pioneeress who clears the way, and makes all ready for the new incoming-tenant;

   • 1865 November 2, “From New York. A Ship-load of Wives for Washington Territory—Mr. Mereer and the Ship Continental—Letter from an Ohio Lady—Anna Dickinson Blows up the Project—Sir Morton Peto, America, and the new Hat, etc.”, in Cleveland Daily Leader‎^[2], volume XIX, number 261:

     I look upon the ship as a second Mayflower, and regard these women as pioneeresses.

   • 1998 November 1, Toni Stroud, “The Resourceful Traveler”, in Chicago Tribune, 152nd year, number 305, section 8, page 24:

     And to think, when you saw her mule-faced portrait in this book, that you figured her for just another dull and wagon-weary pioneeress.

   • 2010 May 20, The Philadelphia Inquirer, 181st year, number 354, page C2:

     Seems she’s been at Cannes, trying to round up backers for her new project, Inferno, a biopic of porn pioneeress Linda Lovelace.

   • 2017, Béatrice Craig, “Behind the Discursive Veil”, in Female Enterprise Behind the Discursive Veil in Nineteenth-Century Northern France, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 220:

     […]; the Prouvost firm’s centennial booklet may have recognized the role played by hardy pioneeresses in the fortune of the firm, but it nonetheless described their descendants in cloying words: “At all times, the Prouvost enjoyed the priceless happiness of being powerfully assisted by their wives or daughters, models of courage, goodness and dedication … moved by the determination to contribute, with all the tact their heart was capable, their share to the still so necessary work of social betterment.”