单词 | jaileress |
释义 | jaileressgaoleressn. A female jailer. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prisoner > [noun] > jailer > female jaileress1747 wardress1878 matron1931 1747 S. Richardson Clarissa II. xii. 64 My saucy gaoleress assured me, That all my oppositions would not signify that pinch of snuff. 1796 F. Jacson Plain Sense (ed. 2) III. 67 He would find such a jailoress as he desired. 1863 G. A. Sala Strange Adventures Capt. Dangerous I. x. 285 Knocked about by the Turnkeys, or abused by the Gaoleress. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1747 |
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