innkeeperess

English

Alternative forms

• innkeepress

Etymology

From innkeeper +‎ -ess.

Noun

innkeeperess (plural innkeeperesses)

1. (dated) A female innkeeper.
   • 1873, John Burley Waring, A Record of My Artistic Life, page 89:

     […] ; felt uneasy, and still more so when the inkeeperess pulled my beard and was complimentary.

   • 1961, Gordon R. Dickson, Spacial Delivery; republished United Kingdom: Orion Publishing Group, 2011 September 29, →ISBN:

     Between this individual and the crowd—among which John recognized the innkeeperess in a clean apron—were John’s three tormentors of the night before, looking hangdog between two large Dilbians carrying axes over their shoulders.

   • 2000, Anthony J. Close, Cervantes and the Comic Mind of His Age, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 297:

     […] when he hears of Guzman’s mishap, mortifyingly roars with laughter, revealing soon afterwards that the occasion is not the boy’s discomfiture, but a practical joke subsequently played on the innkeeperess which has effectively avenged him.