porteress
Americannoun
Gender
See -ess.
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Juve beside himself tore down the stairs full tilt, passed breathlessly the porteress, who seemed likely to faint at the sight of the headlong pace of the supposed paralytic.
From The Exploits of Juve Being the Second of the Series of the "Fantômas" Detective Tales by Émile Souvestre
True, holy mother! and yet I did but repeat the tale as the porteress ere now related it to me.
From Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf by George W. M. (George William MacArthur) Reynolds
“The Father Gebhardt!” cried the porteress; “now, all ye saints and angels, that is the very person who dreamt of you; that is he whom they are about to burn.”
From Faustus his Life, Death, and Doom by George Henry Borrow
Having, from the entrance to the alley, observed Madame d'Harville stop to speak to the porteress, the marquis had likewise prepared himself to pass through some sort of questioning.
From The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 2 of 6 by Eugène Sue
I am only the porteress, and it is at least a hundred years since I have been out.
From Legends & Romances of Brittany by Lewis Spence
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