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Hostess   /hˈoʊstəs/   Listen
noun
Hostess  n.  
1.
A female host; a woman who hospitably entertains guests at her house.
2.
A woman who entertains guests for compensation; a female innkeeper.





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"Hostess" Quotes from Famous Books



... down contentedly purring in its mistress' silken lap, the front door closed behind Mr. Dallas, and turning to his hostess, Noel for the first time addressed her in her native tongue, asking the ...
— A Beautiful Alien • Julia Magruder
... that the blood trickles down from the wound. But he, without delay, and without complaining of his wound, presses on more rapidly, until he strikes between the temples him who was assaulting his hostess. Before he departs, he will try to keep his pledge to her. He makes him stand up reluctantly. Meanwhile, he who had missed striking him comes at him as fast as he can and, raising his arm again, expects to split his head to the teeth with the axe. ...
— Four Arthurian Romances - "Erec et Enide", "Cliges", "Yvain", and "Lancelot" • Chretien de Troyes
... 'He asked the hostess to present him; and my heart throbbed wildly as he came up, bowed, and asked if he could have the pleasure of a dance. I readily consented, and before the party broke up I had given the stranger all my heart. I had never loved before, much as I had ...
— The Four Canadian Highwaymen • Joseph Edmund Collins
... quickly in Pala-dar, city of the golden domes. Detis spent many hours in the laboratory with his two visitors and the fair Ora was usually at his side. She was an efficient helper to her father and a gracious hostess to ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science, November, 1930 • Various
... his door and told his hostess that he would not be taken alive. He added with the nearest approach to a smile ever seen on ...
— The Man in Gray • Thomas Dixon


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