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air hostess

British  

noun

  1. Gender-neutral form: flight attendant.  a stewardess on an airliner

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Middleton, raised in the picturesque village of Bucklebury, springs from what Brown delicately terms “unexalted origins,” which basically means her mother Carole was an air hostess.

From Washington Post • Apr. 23, 2022

Having appealed for more information, he was contacted by an air hostess who remembered taking Monolulu on a flight to Paris, who said that he'd had a Danish passport.

From BBC • Oct. 30, 2020

The place is run efficiently and with zest by veterans of South African Airways, Theunis Botha, who was a purser, and Denise Potter, who was an air hostess.

From New York Times • Apr. 11, 2019

The first, to Patricia Booker, a shop assistant and air hostess from his home city, saw him go as far as he could with his Australian business.

From The Guardian • Dec. 16, 2017

After the original ruling, Prince Albert issued a statement publicly acknowledging that the child of Togolese-born air hostess Nicole Coste was his.

From Reuters • Jun. 12, 2014

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