wardress

English

Etymology

From warder +‎ -ess.

Pronunciation

Noun

wardress (plural wardresses)

  1. A female warder.
    • 1993, Pat Barker, The Eye in the Door (The Regeneration Trilogy), Penguin, published 2014, page 369:
      The door opened and the wardress came in.
    • 2008, Denis Beckett, “Explaining prawns”, in Magenta, Scottsville, Pietermaritzburg: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press; Johannesburg: Saga Press, →ISBN, page 83:
      She is not beaming at all. Her mouth is set like the wardress of Belsen wishing to boil Joyous’s chubby cheeks into candle wax.

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