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proprietress

[ UK /pɹəpɹˈa‍ɪ‍ətɹəs/ ]
NOUN
  1. a woman proprietor

How To Use proprietress In A Sentence

  • Whether the proprietress of Elle Escorts for Discriminating Gentlemen was sincere in her assurance was unknown. O: A Presidential Novel
  • He alone among the guests at a country inn does not vie for the affections of the proprietress Mirandolina, thus setting in motion her plan to humble him by seducing him.
  • On an errand to the school to deliver a packet of hand-bills advertising the wax-works, Nell meets up with the school proprietress and her teachers and pupils, lined up, books open, about to take their morning walk.
  • The solid seems much more lustrous than the hand-painted, but the proprietress said all I had to do was treat the hand-painted skeins roughly and they would begin to glow. Archive 2009-03-01
  • There she lives under the watchful eye of the proprietress, the geisha house ‘mother’, even stricter than her own mother.
  • In the village he only seemed to know the proprietress.
  • A film crew was there filming a tongue-in-cheek interview with the proprietress of the place.
  • Maigret called the proprietress, paid for the two drinks. Maigret and the Reluctant Witness
  • Whoever it was who had arrived, the proprietress had not been there to meet her. DEATH IN PURPLE PROSE
  • The proprietress Claude, a woman with all the graces, originally from Tours, and her solid bricoleur husband, recommended a lovely place to swim no more than ten kilometers ‘thattaway’.
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