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housemother

NOUN
  1. a woman employed as a chaperon in a residence for young people

How To Use housemother In A Sentence

  • But was I really supposed to have this older man pick me up at the Gamma Phi Beta house and have our senile housemother, aka “The Phantom,” mistake him for someone’s father? You’ll Never Blue Ball in This Town Again
  • Kate found the training school alienating, and her claims that her housemother disliked her were dismissed as irrational, possibly adding to her sense of injustice.
  • Muttering under his breath, he joins the distinguished company of fellow resident Terrence and housemother Mrs. Wilkinson.
  • I lived in Australian ashrams and found them to be full of power-crazed micro-manager housemothers and housefathers who used double standards in how they applied the rules to different ashram residents.
  • And the housemother said quite graciously, ‘Well, Virginia, you have a choice.’
  • He'd done some sketches of birds in the grounds and gone shopping with a housemother to buy drawing materials. FORESTS OF THE NIGHT
  • In the home the functions of the priesthood are discharged through the housefather and, under circumstances, through the housemother.
  • The housemother looked blank for a moment, but then the wisdom of Mma Potokwani's suggestion dawned upon her and she smiled broadly.
  • The pinkish purple light of dawn blanketed my room, and I was just blinking my blurry eyes at my digital clock when the door was flung open and Mrs. Shepard, our housemother, looked inside. Ominous
  • Aunt Sarah had always been the perfect "housemother" or Mary at the Farm and Book of Recipes Compiled during Her Visit among the "Pennsylvania Germans"
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