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jailoress

jailoress noun: a female jailor.

Noun

jailoress (plural jailoresses)

  1. 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 of jailoress

pluraljailoresses

Origin of jailoress

From jailor + -ess.

Questions about jailoress

What does jailoress mean?
Jailoress means a female jailor.
What part of speech is jailoress?
Jailoress is a noun.
What is the plural of jailoress?
The plural of jailoress is jailoresses.

Words near jailoress in the dictionary

  1. jaillike
  2. jailmate
  3. jailmates
  4. Jailolo
  5. jailor
  6. jailoress
  7. jailoresses
  8. jailors
  9. jails
  10. jailsful
  11. Jailtacht

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