jailoress
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]jailoress (plural jailoresses)
- A female jailor.
- 1845, Katherine Thomson, Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745, volume 2, page 274:
- Ву the “clink of a louis d'or,” the prisoner managed to subdue the fidelity of this fair jailoress; she supplied him with pens and paper, and he immediately began a correspondence with his absent friends at the French Court.