hostess
Speech parts
1. hostess - Noun
2. hostess - Verb
Meaning
A female host; a woman who hospitably entertains guests at her house.
A woman who entertains guests for compensation; a female innkeeper.
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So I think there is one rule every host and hostess ought to keep with the comb and nail file and bicarbonate and aromatic spirits on a handy shelf, Which is don't spoil the denouement by telling the guests everything is terrible, but let them have the thrill of finding it out for themselves.
If by the time we're sixty we haven't learned what a knot of paradox and contradiction life is, and how exquisitely the good and the bad are mingled in every action we take, and what a compromising hostess Our Lady of Truth is, we haven't grown old to much purpose.
It was while Princess Margaret was attending a high-society party in New York that the hostess asked her politely how the Queen was keeping. "Which one?" she is reported to have replied with her typically razor-sharp wit. "My sister, my mother or my husband?"
Where the hostess is beautiful the wine is tasty.
Where the hostess is handsome the wine is good.
A handsome hostess is bad for the purse.