wardress
Americannoun
Gender
See -ess.
Etymology
Origin of wardress
First recorded in 1815–25; ward(e)r 1 + -ess
Example Sentences
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I heard the ex-maid-servant's clearest kitchen accent announcing exactly what she thought of "that" wardress and "that" detective, and "that there old Rattenheimer" until stone walls and heavy doors shut her from earshot....
From Miss Million's Maid A Romance of Love and Fortune by Mrs. Oliver Onions
At the door of the cubicle where she had been forced to submit to the indignity of being searched by a wardress, the latter was now standing, waiting with characteristic stolidity.
From El Dorado, an adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy
One afternoon, while everything was still, the wardress heard her cry out suddenly and alarmingly, and with great and unmistakable passion, "Why in the name of goodness did I burn that twenty pounds?"
From Ann Veronica, a modern love story by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
I can't think of words unpleasant enough to describe the odiousness of that particular wardress into whose charge we were given.
From Miss Million's Maid A Romance of Love and Fortune by Mrs. Oliver Onions
"Tell ninety-six she's to come down," Nan's guide called out, but she went to meet the other wardress, and the two stood talking a moment.
From The Messenger by Elizabeth Robins
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