(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...
Stewardess
Definition:
(n.) A female steward; specifically, a woman employed in passenger vessels to attend to the wants of female passengers.
Example Sentences:
(1) Then, as one of the stewardesses, as they were called then, was bringing the captain his lunch, the woman shoved her aside and rushed into the cockpit, rapidly followed by the man.
(2) The Liberal Democrat MEP Sarah Ludford also welcomed the decision, saying: "The court has struck exactly the right balance in judging that BA's corporate image policy should not override right of BA stewardess Nadia Eweida to wear a cross whereas genuine health and safety issues in a hospital could rule out nurse Shirley Chaplin's desire to wear one.
(3) Cethan Leahy said the novel now looked like a "tale which is possibly about the fun hi-jinks of four air stewardesses", while children's writer Louie Stowell wrote: "I think, after that Bell Jar cover, my next pitch for a kids book will be The Big Pink Book of Low Expectations For Girls.
(4) It has been followed by shows like Pan Am , which celebrates and glamorises the life of air stewardesses in the 1960s, when flying was a far cry from the crowded hell that it is nowadays.
(5) I asked the chief stewardess why the maid didn’t quit.
(6) But in a second round of tests, the scientists interleaved words that had no special meaning for the control group, but were associated with the airline incident, such as "Atlantic", "runway", "stewardess" and "Transat".
(7) These values were then correlated with the records of 62 pilots and stewardesses with subnormal hemoglobin values to assure the opertional predictive validity.
(8) I heard of one stewardess who married their owner, but those kinds of relationships are rare.” Drugs are less ubiquitous than you might think.
(9) "I've been paying the salaries of 500 Germans from drivers to pilots and stewardesses for 37 days.
(10) Travel alone offers no real danger to the pregnant stewardess in the first trimester of pregnancy; however, because of the changing mechanics of her size, posture, and increasing unsteadiness, it would be wisest to require a pregnant stewardess to cease flying at 13 weeks, with an absolute prohibition of flying after the 20th week.
(11) Remember her ex-air stewardess mother and the "doors to manual" jibes.
(12) A procedure was developed whereby the high capacity Boeing 747 could be disinsected by four stewardesses in less than 1 minute.
(13) The author outlines the normal changes to be expected with advancing pregnancy and those factors that could have an adverse effect on a pregnant stewardess and her fetus, such as hypoxia, trauma, abortion, the hazards of travel, and flying itself.
(14) Brussels attacks: bomber 'caught in Turkey last June' says Turkish president – live Read more The woman has since been identified as Indian air stewardess Nidhi Chaphekar, a mother of two from Mumbai who arrived at the terminal ahead of meeting her colleagues for a flight to Newark in the United States.
(15) Particularly at risk may be stewardesses if they continue their strenuous work while pregnant.
(16) Engelhard seems to have taken this as a compliment and began calling one of the stewardesses on his private jet Pussy Galore, after the character played in the film by Honor Blackman.
(17) He just shrugged OK, so I stood by him and smiled for the camera while a stewardess did the snap.
(18) There is much pressure on the airlines to allow stewardesses to fly while pregnant.
(19) Murphy Govind, the brother of MH17 stewardess Angeline Premila Rajandran , said: "It is sad that the bodies will not be home before [Eid, the end of the fasting period] but there's nothing we can do.
(20) But we soon realised the Israelis had chosen the real, real ugly solution to attack in international water … It was only when I got on my flight home that I realised that people had died in the attack, when the stewardess told me on the plane," he said.