housemistress
noun
1
old-fashioned : a mistress of a house
2
: a woman in charge of a house in a girls' boarding school
Word History
First Known Use
1689, in the meaning defined at sense 1
- mastectomies
- mastectomy
- masted
- master
- master agreement
- master bedroom
- master builder
- master chief petty officer
- master chief petty officer of the coast guard
- master chief petty officer of the navy
- master class
- master clock
- master container
- master gage
- master gunner
- master gunnery sergeant
- master key
- master leaf
- master map
- master mariner
- master mason
- master matrix
- master mechanic
- master of arts
- master of ceremonies