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Ina's conception of hostess-ship was definite: A volley of questions—was his train on time?

From Miss Lulu Bett by Gale, Zona

Presumably there was current in her mind a polite fiction that she was entertaining her guests, but she did not take her duties of hostess-ship too seriously.

From The Whirligig of Time by Williams, Wayland Wells

She richly embroidered the themes, now so remote, that had once occupied poor Althea's imagination—house-parties at Merriston; hostess-ship on a large scale in London; Gerald's seat in Parliament taken as a matter-of-course.

From Franklin Kane by Sedgwick, Anne Douglas

"That will do," she declared, tyrannizing over him with a fine affectation of austere hostess-ship.

From The Price by Lynde, Francis

It is my father's will I should take on me The hostess-ship o' the day:—you're welcome, sir.'

From Judith Shakespeare Her love affairs and other adventures by Black, William