usherette
usherette noun: a female usher.
Noun
usherette (plural usherettes)
- A female usher.
- It is such a tiny little place that at first I thought I had gone wrong, and was in an antechamber. Plain papered walls, ascetic chairs, a moldy piano, and a couple of usherettes seemed extremely bare.1905 September, Alan Dale, “Dramatic Flashes from London and Paris”, in Ainslee’s Magazine, volume 16, page 152
- And then the usherette opened the doors of this dark palace and with a flashlight held behind her took him to his seat.1953, James Baldwin, Go Tell It on the Mountain (Penguin Classics), London: Penguin Books, published 2001, →ISBN
usherette meaning in Malayalam
usherette in Malayalam
- അകമ്പടിക്കാരി, സ്വാഗതോദ്യോഗസ്ഥ, വിശിഷ്ടവ്യക്തികളെ ആനയിക്കുന്ന സ്ത്രീ
Examples of usherette in a sentence
- We do the girl shows, and he yells at all the dames and tries to date the usherettes until we finally get pitched out. […]”1954 April, Louis Trimble, “Probability”, in If: Worlds of Science Fiction:
- […] I won’t even see her again till next Saturday night on account of her doing week-nights as an usherette at the Regal […]1960, Muriel Spark, chapter 7, in The Ballad of Peckham Rye, London: Macmillan:
- But please don’t call them usherettes. […] “Usherette makes us sound as if we’re miniature ushers or something.1994 April 24, Glenn Collins, “Making it work. Sentinels of Broadway”, in The New York Times:
Forms of usherette
| plural | usherettes |
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Origin of usherette
From usher + -ette.
Questions about usherette
- What does usherette mean?
- Usherette means a female usher.
- What is usherette in Malayalam?
- Usherette in Malayalam is അകമ്പടിക്കാരി, സ്വാഗതോദ്യോഗസ്ഥ, വിശിഷ്ടവ്യക്തികളെ ആനയിക്കുന്ന സ്ത്രീ. See Usherette meaning in Malayalam.
- How do you use usherette in a sentence?
- We do the girl shows, and he yells at all the dames and tries to date the usherettes until we finally get pitched out. […]”
- What part of speech is usherette?
- Usherette is a noun.
- What is the plural of usherette?
- The plural of usherette is usherettes.
Words near usherette in the dictionary
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