innkeeperess

plural innkeeperesses · alternative innkeepress

1. datedA female innkeeper.

   […]; felt uneasy, and still more so when the inkeeperess pulled my beard and was complimentary.

   1873, John Burley Waring, A Record of My Artistic Life, page 89

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   Between this individual and the crowd—among which John recognized the innkeeperess in a clean apron—were John’s three tormentors of the night before, looking hangdog between two large Dilbians carrying axes over their shoulders.

   1961, Gordon R. Dickson, Spacial Delivery; republished United Kingdom: Orion Publishing Group, 29 September 2011, →ISBN

   […] when he hears of Guzman’s mishap, mortifyingly roars with laughter, revealing soon afterwards that the occasion is not the boy’s discomfiture, but a practical joke subsequently played on the innkeeperess which has effectively avenged him.

   2000, Anthony J. Close, Cervantes and the Comic Mind of His Age, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 297