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housekeeperess

housekeeperess noun: a female housekeeper.

Noun

housekeeperess (plural housekeeperesses)

  1. (dated, rare) A female housekeeper.
    • “Miss Mary Anderson has an idea of becoming a London manageress,” says a contemporary. We hoped that when May had made her little pile as an actress, she would make some good man a nice little wifess and settle down as a charming housekeeperess.1885 March 12, “Personal and Impersonal”, in The Greeley News, volume IV, number 41, Greeley, Kan., column 8
    • The housekeeperess of M. Molière / Was rather useful, you’re aware, / For to that lady, it is said, / His various comedies he read.1890 November 19, “Rough on the Bird”, in Fun, volume LII, number 1332, London: […] W. Lay, […], page 217

Examples of housekeeperess in a sentence

  • “Why, Patty Fairfield! consider yourself discharged, and I shall suit myself at once with another housekeeperess!”1904, Carolyn Wells, “A Tea Club Tea”, in Patty at Home, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, →OCLC, page 149:
  • Eruaga Marie 18 f housekeeperess[…]Mieg Jeanne 17 f housekeeperess1985, Rogue Digger, Rogue Valley Genealogical Society, pages 31–32:
  • We meet a Dirty Architect, who makes lots of money and likes his butter rolled into spheres by his Irish housekeeperess, Mary.1987, Punch, page 38, column 4:

Forms of housekeeperess

pluralhousekeeperesses

Origin of housekeeperess

From housekeeper + -ess.

Questions about housekeeperess

What does housekeeperess mean?
Housekeeperess means a female housekeeper.
How do you use housekeeperess in a sentence?
“Why, Patty Fairfield! consider yourself discharged, and I shall suit myself at once with another housekeeperess!”
What part of speech is housekeeperess?
Housekeeperess is a noun.
What is the plural of housekeeperess?
The plural of housekeeperess is housekeeperesses.

Words near housekeeperess in the dictionary

  1. househunting
  2. househusband
  3. househusbands
  4. housekeep
  5. housekeeper
  6. housekeeperess
  7. housekeeperesses
  8. housekeeperless
  9. housekeeperly
  10. housekeepers
  11. housekeeping

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