jailoress

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noun

A female jailor.

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Meanings

nounjailoress (plural jailoresses)

plural jailoresses

  1. A female jailor.

    Ву the “clink of a louis d'or,” the prisoner managed to subdue the fidelity of this fair jailoress; she supplied him with pens and paper, and he immediately began a correspondence with his absent friends at the French Court.

    1845, Katherine Thomson, Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745, volume 2, page 274

Origin

From jailor + -ess.

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APA

jailoress. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/jailoress

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“jailoress.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/jailoress. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “jailoress,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/jailoress.

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