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proprietoress

proprietoress is the alternative form of proprietress.

Meaning of proprietress

Noun

proprietress (plural proprietresses)

  1. (dated) A female proprietor.
    • In addition, the proprietress is a Nazi. We barely escaped with our lives.1963 (date written), John Kennedy Toole, chapter 3, in A Confederacy of Dunces, London: Penguin Books, published 1980 (1981 printing), →ISBN, page 55

Forms of proprietoress

pluralproprietoresses

Questions about proprietoress

What is proprietoress the alternative form of?
Proprietoress is the alternative form of proprietress.

Words near proprietoress in the dictionary

  1. proprietess
  2. proprietesses
  3. proprieties
  4. proprietive
  5. proprietor
  6. proprietoress
  7. proprietoresses
  8. proprietorial
  9. proprietorial borough
  10. proprietorial boroughs
  11. proprietorially

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Adapted from Wiktionary: proprietoress (page history and authors); proprietress (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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