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"It's not just people in the music industry, this was also happening to barmaids, pub landladies and people's mums," she said.

From BBC • Feb. 9, 2026

The demonstration was organised by two landladies in Gedling, Nottinghamshire, and was attended by people of all ages.

From BBC • Oct. 28, 2021

Even picture postcards, Igo relates in one of many humorous and eye-opening vignettes, came under fire for enabling, one magazine’s editors wrote, “servants and landladies to have the full benefit of our private matters.”

From Washington Post • Jun. 8, 2018

The landladies run their fingers along the tops of wardrobes, tutting, while the men argue about their Visit Britain accreditation, mouths full of tepid bacon.

From The Guardian • Apr. 20, 2010

In these times landladies do not always look on actors as their legitimate "prey."

From The Secrets of a Savoyard by Lytton, Henry A.