post-lady

See also: post lady and postlady

English

Noun

post-lady (plural post-ladies)

  1. Alternative form of post lady.
    • 1994 April 27, Susan Bassnett, “Letter: Vocal opposition to Portillo over the causes of disquiet for the majority”, in The Independent‎[1], London: Independent News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 September 2021:
      [M]y husband delivered a card to the local post-lady who has just had a baby.
    • 2013 November 12, Lee Coan, “The unspoken rules of dog walking”, in The Daily Telegraph‎[2], London: Telegraph Media Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 November 2013:
      Whether it’s a post-lady’s leg, a dead badger, or a particularly sexy Pug that your dog wants to make sweet love to, do not let this happen.
    • 2015 May 8, Angelique Chrisafis, quoting Marie-Catherine Bovis, “VE Day: our memories of the second world war and the day it ended”, in The Guardian‎[3], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 May 2015:
      It was only down to a local village post-lady that he survived. She came across a letter to the authorities from a villager denouncing him as a Jew and she destroyed it.
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