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See also: hôtesse
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]hostesse (plural hostesses)
- Obsolete spelling of hostess.
- c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 49, column 2:
- Fal. Thou ſay'ſt true Lad: is not my Hoſteſſe of the Tauerne a moſt ſweet Wench? / Prin. As is the hony, my old Lad of the Caſtle: and is not a Buffe Ierkin a moſt ſweet robe of durance?
French
[edit]Noun
[edit]hostesse f (plural hostesses)
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[edit]Middle English
[edit]Noun
[edit]hostesse (plural hostesses)
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[edit]Middle French
[edit]Noun
[edit]hostesse f (plural hostesses)
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[edit]Old French
[edit]Noun
[edit]hostesse oblique singular, f (oblique plural hostesses, nominative singular hostesse, nominative plural hostesses)
- Alternative form of ostesce
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