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jailoresses

jailoresses is the plural of jailoress.

Meaning of jailoress

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

Questions about jailoresses

What is jailoresses the plural of?
Jailoresses is the plural of jailoress.

Words near jailoresses in the dictionary

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

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