proprietress
English
Alternative forms
- proprietess
- proprietoress
Etymology
proprietor + -ess
Noun
proprietress (plural proprietresses, masculine proprietor)
- A female proprietor.
- Synonyms: proprietrix, owneress
- a. 1969, John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces, Penguin, published 1981, →ISBN, page 55:
- In addition, the proprietress is a Nazi. We barely escaped with our lives.