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innkeeperess en · NOUN

Etymology

From innkeeper + -ess.

Meanings

1. (dated) A female innkeeper.
   • […]; felt uneasy, and still more so when the inkeeperess pulled my beard and was complimentary. 1873, John Burley Waring, A Record of My Artistic Life, page 89:
   • Between this individual and the crowd—among which John recognized the innkeeperess in a clean apron—were John’s three tormentors of the night before, looking hangdog between two large Dilbians carrying axes over their shoulders. 1961, Gordon R. Dickson, Spacial Delivery; republished United Kingdom: Orion Publishing Group, 29 September 2011, →ISBN:
   • […] when he hears of Guzman’s mishap, mortifyingly roars with laughter, revealing soon afterwards that the occasion is not the boy’s discomfiture, but a practical joke subsequently played on the innkeeperess which has effectively avenged him. 2000, Anthony J. Close, Cervantes and the Comic Mind of His Age, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 297:

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