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, 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.
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