sales-lady

See also: saleslady

English

Noun

sales-lady (plural sales-ladies)

1. Archaic form of saleslady.
   • 1879 January 11, “Fun”, in Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, volume XLVII, number 1,215, New York, N.Y., page 338, column 2:

     “I am the sales-lady who served you, madam,” responded the reduced empress in banged hair, long watch-chain and ringed fingers, who presided at the counter.

   • 1882, “Emile Zola’s Greatest Works”, in Émile Zola, The Mysteries of the Court of Louis Napoleon, Philadelphia, Pa.: T. B. Peterson & Brothers: […]:

     It describes the largest combination dry-goods store and bazaar in Paris, and shows the life of the sales-ladies and salesmen employed behind its counters, with their flirtations, trials, troubles and temptations.

   • 1888, Donn Piatt, “The Sales-Lady of the City”, in The Lone Grave of the Shenandoah and Other Tales, Chicago, Ill., […]: Belford, Clarke & Co., →OCLC, page 86:

     Lillian Stubbs, sales-lady, as she called herself, stood irresolute, for a moment, behind the storm-doors of that fashionable emporium known as Dunn, Dusenberry & Co.