jailoress en · NOUN
Etymology
Etymology tree English jailor Late Latin -issader. Old French -essebor. Middle English -esse English -ess English jailoress From jailor + -ess.
Meanings
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A female jailor.
Ву the “clink of a louis d'or,” the prisoner managed to subdue the fidelity of this fair jailoress; she supplied him with pens and paper, and he immediately began a correspondence with his absent friends at the French Court.
1845, Katherine Thomson, Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745, volume 2, page 274:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| jailoresses | Number=Plur | lexicographic |