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"text": "The [Washington] Post's proprietor through those turbulent [Watergate] days, Katharine Graham, held a double place in Washington’s hierarchy: at once regal Georgetown hostess and scrappy newshound, ready to hold the establishment to account.",
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"sense": "female host",
"word": "gasvrou"
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"sense": "female host",
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"sense": "female host",
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"roman": "nǚzhǔrén",
"sense": "female host",
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"roman": "masṗinʒeli",
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"sense": "female host",
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"word": "господиня"
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"roman": "handžijka",
"sense": "female innkeeper",
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"word": "ханджийка"
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"word": "hostalera"
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"sense": "bargirl (a female companion)",
"word": "イベントコンパニオン"
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"word": "도우미"
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"roman": "plátna partnérka",
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"word": "пла́тна партне́рка"
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"text": "Later in January, the alum club hostessed the initiation brunch at the Pi Beta Phi chapter house. It was thrilling to see so many girls with such enthusiasm!",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1986 fall, MWC Today, volume 11, number 1, page 21, column 1",
"text": "Over the years she has maintained a close relationship with several former students. Currently, she alternates between visiting and hostessing two in Roanoke and Greenville, N.C., respectively, and is a proud godgrandmother to one’s new baby.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2009, Eireann Corrigan, Accomplice, Frome, Som: The Chicken House, published 2010, page 161",
"text": "Dad and I had left early to make sure to get a booth in the back. But when I got there, Teddy Selander’s older sister was hostessing and she said, ‘You’re meeting Dean West? He’s sitting right over here,’ loud enough for everyone to hear.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To host, as a woman."
],
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[
"host",
"host"
]
]
}
],
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{
"ipa": "/ˈhoʊstɪs/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈhəʊstəs/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
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"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0d/En-us-hostess.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
],
"text": "Audio (US)"
}
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"wikipedia": [
"hostess"
],
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}
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