toastmistress

American  

[tohst-mis-truhs] / ˈtoʊstˌmɪs trəs /

noun

1. a woman who presides at a dinner, introduces the after-dinner speakers, and often proposes toasts. toast.

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Gender

See -ess.

Etymology

Origin of toastmistress

First recorded in 1920–25; toast ² + mistress

Example Sentences

Healths were drunk in cocoa, side-splitting toasts proposed by the witty toastmistress, Migwan, and songs sung that made the roof ring.

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Mrs. Hoffman was toastmistress and about twenty men and women responded to toasts.

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Sally May was to be toastmistress and to Judith had been given the honour of replying to the last toast—the toast to "The School."

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By the way, whom are they going to have for toastmistress at class-supper?

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Won’t it be splendid to have a ‘Merry Heart’ for toastmistress?”

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