postmistress
Americannoun
Gender
See -ess.
Etymology
Origin of postmistress
Example Sentences
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The body of retired postmistress Una Crown was found at her bungalow in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, on 13 January 2013.
From BBC ● Feb. 14, 2025
Former postmistress Una Crown lived alone in the bungalow she once shared with her late husband Ron in the Cambridgeshire town of Wisbech.
From BBC ● Feb. 14, 2025
Mairi Wingate has been the postmistress in Barton-upon-Humber for 19 years and says there are lots of reasons people prefer cash.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2024
Jess Kaur was a postmistress in Walsall in the West Midlands and suffered a mental breakdown after being wrongly accused in 2009 of stealing £11,000.
From BBC ● Apr. 8, 2024
Stanton regularly wrote for the Lily, a women’s temperance movement newspaper published by Amelia Bloomer, who worked as the deputy postmistress of Seneca Falls.
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
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