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Hostress

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A female host. dated

    "By this time, mine hostress set before us our dish of herrings, which, with oatmeal cakes, potatoes, and buttermilk, furnished one of the heartiest dinners I ever ate;"

Etymology

From Middle English hoostresse; equivalent to host + -ress.

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