"hostress" meaning in All languages combined

{
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "hostresse"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English hostresse",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "host",
        "3": "ress"
      },
      "expansion": "host + -ress",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English hostresse; equivalent to host + -ress.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "hostresses",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "hostress (plural hostresses)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "dated"
      },
      "expansion": "(dated)",
      "name": "tlb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -ress",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1802, Samuel Jackson Pratt, Gleanings Through Wales, Holland, and Westphalia, volume 1, page 64:",
          "text": "By this time, mine hostress set before us our dish of herrings, which, with oatmeal cakes, potatoes, and buttermilk, furnished one of the heartiest dinners I ever ate;",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1971, Daily report: Asia & Pacific:",
          "text": "To the health, happiness and longevity of His Excellency Marshal Kim Il-song and of Madame Kim Il-song, to the health of the esteemed Korean hosts and hostresses, to the health of His Excellency Minister Abdelaziz Bouteflika and other Algerian personages, to the health of the honourable members of the corps and their wives;",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1973, Stewart Hoagland, New Jersey Historical Profiles; Revolutionary Times:",
          "text": "The host and hostress sat at the side — Colonel Hamilton or some other member of the military family usually took the head of the table.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A female host."
      ],
      "id": "en-hostress-en-noun-y46By0Zw",
      "links": [
        [
          "female",
          "female"
        ],
        [
          "host",
          "host"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "hostess"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dated"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "hostress"
}

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  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "hostresse"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English hostresse",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "host",
        "3": "ress"
      },
      "expansion": "host + -ress",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English hostresse; equivalent to host + -ress.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "hostresses",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "hostress (plural hostresses)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "dated"
      },
      "expansion": "(dated)",
      "name": "tlb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English dated terms",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms derived from Middle English",
        "English terms inherited from Middle English",
        "English terms suffixed with -ress",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1802, Samuel Jackson Pratt, Gleanings Through Wales, Holland, and Westphalia, volume 1, page 64:",
          "text": "By this time, mine hostress set before us our dish of herrings, which, with oatmeal cakes, potatoes, and buttermilk, furnished one of the heartiest dinners I ever ate;",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1971, Daily report: Asia & Pacific:",
          "text": "To the health, happiness and longevity of His Excellency Marshal Kim Il-song and of Madame Kim Il-song, to the health of the esteemed Korean hosts and hostresses, to the health of His Excellency Minister Abdelaziz Bouteflika and other Algerian personages, to the health of the honourable members of the corps and their wives;",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1973, Stewart Hoagland, New Jersey Historical Profiles; Revolutionary Times:",
          "text": "The host and hostress sat at the side — Colonel Hamilton or some other member of the military family usually took the head of the table.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A female host."
      ],
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        [
          "female",
          "female"
        ],
        [
          "host",
          "host"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dated"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "hostess"
    }
  ],
  "word": "hostress"
}