porteress

American  

[pawr-ter-is, pohr-] / ˈpɔr tər ɪs, ˈpoʊr- /

noun

1. portress.

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Gender

See -ess.

Example Sentences

Edward Joseph Robinson, his father, was a ticket collector at Liverpool Street, Farringdon and Baker Street for 46 years and his mother, Mary, worked at Kilburn station as a porteress during World War I when the network first recruited women.

From BBC

The porteress then led me into a hall, where the Prior was seated in an arm-chair, surrounded by his brethren.

From Project Gutenberg

He knocked long for admission at the porter's lodge, but the porteress seeing such a calumny on God's handiwork outside, and scenting appeals for charity, eyed him disfavourably through the little cross-barred spy-window and let him knock.

From Project Gutenberg

Such conduct from men to women contrasts strangely with the courtesy so often extended even to beggars; and a woman of the people, a servant or a porteress, will invite the beggar who is interrupting your conversation to desist, with such phrases as: "Move aside a little; Do me this pleasure."

From Project Gutenberg

The door is opened by the convent porteress, and when the lid is removed our friend sees the ostie, the hosts for the use of the convent, which are brought round every week or every fortnight to the monasteries and churches, a hundred here, twenty there, according to the need.

From Project Gutenberg