landlady
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British, America) IPA: /ˈlændˌleɪ.di/
landlady (plural landladies)
- A female#Adjective|female landlord.
- 1891, Thomas Hardy, chapter IV, in Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented [...] In Three Volumes, volume I, London: James R[ipley] Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., […], OCLC 13623666 ↗, phase the first (The Maiden), pages 40–41 ↗:
- In a large bedroom upstairs, the window of which was thickly curtained with a great woollen shawl lately discarded by the landlady, Mrs. Rolliver, were gathered on this evening nearly a dozen persons, all seeking vinous bliss; all old inhabitants of the nearer end of Marlott, and frequenters of this retreat.
- French: (both male and female) propriétaire
- German: Vermieterin, Hauswirtin
- Russian: хозя́йка
- Spanish: arredataria, casera, terrateniente (la)
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