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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Stolidly pursuing her way, the wardress looked straight in front of her for so long, Nan thought, as she told Napier afterward, that the woman wasn't going to speak at all.
From The Messenger by Elizabeth Robins
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
A glimpse of the tall wardress shutting herself out and shutting in a squat figure clad in shapeless gray serge garments and a foolish cap.
From The Messenger by Elizabeth Robins
When the head jailer came back, he had a wardress in tow.
From The Messenger by Elizabeth Robins
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