Landlady

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A female landlord.

    "In a large bedroom upstairs, the window of which was thickly curtained with a great woollen shawl lately discarded by the landlady, Mrs. Rolliver, were gathered on this evening nearly a dozen persons, all seeking vinous bliss; all old inhabitants of the nearer end of Marlott, and frequenters of this retreat."

  2. 2
    a landlord who is a woman wordnet

Etymology

From land + lady.

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