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hostesse

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See also: hôtesse

English

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hostesse (plural hostesses)

  1. 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

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hostesse f (plural hostesses)

  1. Obsolete spelling of hôtesse.

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Middle English

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hostesse (plural hostesses)

  1. hostess

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Middle French

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hostesse f (plural hostesses)

  1. hostess

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Old French

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hostesse oblique singularf (oblique plural hostesses, nominative singular hostesse, nominative plural hostesses)

  1. Alternative form of ostesce