wardress
IPA: wˈɔrdrɛs
noun
- A female warder.
Examples of "wardress" in Sentences
- She soon finished training and became a wardress.
- She worked at Bergen Belsen as supervising wardress.
- Just let the wardress see your bag and your pockets if you have any.
- Moon, Marie as a kind of cross between a wardress and a nurse for mental cases!
- She took the chair opposite to Wimsey, the wardress withdrew and the door was shut.
- The old wardress – for female persons were also reformed there – lived in our attic.
- Presently there was a noise of footsteps, and the prisoner was brought in, attended by a female wardress.
- He needed something-a stout healthy woman who had trained as a prison wardress, perhaps-but it had become more and more difficult to find nannies for Ramses.
- It was a comic moment when the wardress looked up with her head on one side, as any portrait painter might do, to investigate the colour of one's hair and eyes.
- The leg was useless, but by help of the double banisters she hopped up two flights to her cell, an older wardress from the upper corridor lending her assistance.
- Yet it was a house that lent itself to fancies and try as she would she couldn't rid herself of the feeling that Agatha with her bunch of keys was rather like a wardress in her severe dress and drawn-back hair.
- We have the captive, jealous in honour, susceptible and exasperatingly Quixotic, doubly enchained by his word and the charms of his fair wardress; the lady's conspicuous ill-treatment of him at the first, a slight mystery, some escapes and counterplots, and on the appointed page the matrimonial finish that hardly the most pessimistic reader can ever have felt as other than assured.