housekeeperess
English
Etymology
From housekeeper + -ess.
Noun
housekeeperess (plural housekeeperesses)
- (rare, dated) A female housekeeper.
- 1885 March 12, “Personal and Impersonal”, in The Greeley News, volume IV, number 41, Greeley, Kan., column 8:
- “Miss Mary Anderson has an idea of becoming a London manageress,” says a contemporary. We hoped that when May had made her little pile as an actress, she would make some good man a nice little wifess and settle down as a charming housekeeperess.
- 1890 November 19, “Rough on the Bird”, in Fun, volume LII, number 1332, London: […] W. Lay, […], page 217:
- The housekeeperess of M. Molière / Was rather useful, you’re aware, / For to that lady, it is said, / His various comedies he read.
- 1904, Carolyn Wells, “A Tea Club Tea”, in Patty at Home, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, page 149:
- “Why, Patty Fairfield! consider yourself discharged, and I shall suit myself at once with another housekeeperess!”
- 1985, Rogue Digger, Rogue Valley Genealogical Society, pages 31–32:
- Eruaga Marie 18 f housekeeperess […] Mieg Jeanne 17 f housekeeperess
- 1987, Punch, page 38, column 4:
- We meet a Dirty Architect, who makes lots of money and likes his butter rolled into spheres by his Irish housekeeperess, Mary.