(n.) A female host; a woman who hospitably entertains guests at her house.
(n.) A woman who entertains guests for compensation; a female innkeeper.
Example Sentences:
(1) Tales of tips to hostesses and waitresses of £50,000 also abounded.
(2) At school we had careers talks about being florists or air hostesses – or if we were really lucky, getting to Lucie Clayton [finishing school].
(3) As hostess – a throwback to the days when flight attendants were described that way – he has appointed Amanda Miller, his gatekeeper in the reality show The Apprentice .
(4) While the shop assistants are aware they're playing the role of knicker pimp, of jolly hostess, I wonder if the male customers are aware of their own role, a role learned from the 1970s: flustered man in lingerie department.
(5) On board the plane, the air hostess gives me a pair of socks.
(6) Now 89 years old, she’s still involved in politics, traveling to Washington now and again and working with the local League of Women Voters – but when she played hostess to some of Houston’s other politically active senior women, she nonetheless made sure the finger sandwiches were artfully arranged on a painted plate instead of the plastic serving dishes provided by the catering company.
(7) His mother, Nancy, was the first woman MP, the dominating hostess of Cliveden.
(8) The authors have attempted to obtain basic information on the level of knowledge concerning STDs and on the sexual behaviour of highly sexually promiscuous individuals for use in the organization of future STD control programmes; the information was obtained from a population of 213 bar hostesses, 66 unlicensed prostitutes, and 115 male sufferers from STDs.
(9) His connections in Paris extended to people linked to the arts in the 1930s, such as the hostess and collector Marie-Laure de Noailles.
(10) Whitehorn cooked The Dish - a foolproof combination of braising steak, flour, herbs, tomato paste and vegetables - twice last week, and not one of her guests asked if the hostess couldn't please call up for a takeaway curry.
(11) Ruth Ellis, the nightclub hostess who was the last woman to be executed in Britain, was killed for political reasons.
(12) The modernisation of the Guides has gathered pace since the appointment of a new chief executive in 2012, and while a generation ago badges including homemaker, hostess and needlewoman may have inadvertently limited members’ vision to their own front door, the new badge is intended to expand their geographical and political horizons.
(13) In order to see whether weanling normophagic rats with hypothalamic obesity (VMNL rats) become hyperphagic and more obese than when fed lab chow, and to see in addition whether there is a possible sex difference in whatever response is found, male and female VMNL rats were fed lab chow for 14 days after lesion production and then, for the following 42 days, they received Hostess HoHos, potato chips, marshmallows and french fries in addition to lab chow.
(14) In addition, first aid equipment including a resuscitator (respirator)--to be used by the trained cabin attendants--and over-the-counter medications in a Hostess Purse are also carried.
(15) Now her main job is as "hostess of the White House", allowing her to invite stars such as Beyoncé to her bashes, as she did last Saturday.
(16) Tiger Woods , who began the year by breaking the all-comers cocktail waitress and nightclub hostess record, is the runaway winner of Injunction of the Year for the one obtained by his lawyers, preventing the publication in Britain of any images of Woods naked or having sexual intercourse, "while denying that Woods was aware of the existence of any such images".
(17) The tone is that of a cocktail party hostess greeting an uninvited guest whom she would quite like to throw out but has decided to tolerate.
(18) November 4, 2012 10.21pm GMT Campaigning in Ohio, Joe Biden comes dangerously close to his Onion parody persona, after he stopped off at a Cleveland diner this afternoon: As he paid for his coconut cream pie and cheesecake, the vice president spoke with hostess Amira Nasrallah, a senior at nearby Lakewood High School.
(19) Hostess, based in Irving, Texas, also wanted to quickly shutter its business, because has been spending about $1m a day in payroll without any income since it halted operations last week.
(20) Staff must include on-call doctors who can be helped by at-home physicians and many competent paramedics: nurses, health workers, stretcher-bearers, X-ray handlers, drivers, operators, secretaries, social workers, hostesses...
Innkeeper
Definition:
(n.) An innholder.
Example Sentences:
(1) With new reforming zeal, Webb compared pension companies to the innkeeper in Les Misérables – " Charge 'em for the lice, extra for the mice, two per cent for looking in the mirror twice " – as he accused them of "ever more inventive ways of extracting money from their clients".
(2) The union also pays for bar workers to earn qualifications from the British Society of Innkeepers.
(3) Innkeepers, cooks, and owners or managers of guest houses had high rates of cancers of the digestive system.
(4) In May 2012, BrewDog was voted Scottish Bar Operator of the Year by the members of the British Institute of Innkeeping (BII).
(5) Sacha Baron Cohen will next be seen in a supporting role as an innkeeper in Tom Hooper's lavish adaptation of Les Misérables.
(6) Canvassing for Votes, one of a series of four wonderful paintings by William Hogarth about the corruption of parliamentary elections in the 18th century, depicts agents for the Tories and the Whigs flourishing banknotes at an innkeeper in an attempt to bribe him.