housekeeperess

English

Etymology

From housekeeper +‎ -ess.

Noun

housekeeperess (plural housekeeperesses)

1. (rare, dated) A female housekeeper.
   • 1885 March 12, “Personal and Impersonal”, in The Greeley News‎^[1], volume IV, number 41, Greeley, Kan., column 8:

     “Miss Mary Anderson has an idea of becoming a London manageress,” says a contemporary. We hoped that when May had made her little pile as an actress, she would make some good man a nice little wifess and settle down as a charming housekeeperess.

   • 1890 November 19, “Rough on the Bird”, in Fun, volume LII, number 1332, London: […] W. Lay, […], page 217:

     The housekeeperess of M. Molière / Was rather useful, you’re aware, / For to that lady, it is said, / His various comedies he read.

   • 1904, Carolyn Wells, “A Tea Club Tea”, in Patty at Home, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, →OCLC, page 149:

     “Why, Patty Fairfield! consider yourself discharged, and I shall suit myself at once with another housekeeperess!”

   • 1985, Rogue Digger, Rogue Valley Genealogical Society, pages 31–32:

     Eruaga Marie 18 f housekeeperess […] Mieg Jeanne 17 f housekeeperess

   • 1987, Punch, page 38, column 4:

     We meet a Dirty Architect, who makes lots of money and likes his butter rolled into spheres by his Irish housekeeperess, Mary.