stewardess
Noun
Meaning
A female steward; specifically, a woman employed in passenger vessels to attend to the wants of female passengers.
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Please relax," said the voice pleasantly, like a stewardess in an airliner with only one wing and two engines one of which is on fire, "you are perfectly safe.
Of all the famous men who ever lived, the one I would most like to have been was Socrates. Not just because he was a great thinker, because I have been known to have some reasonably profound insights myself, although mine invariably revolve around a Swedish airline stewardess and some handcuffs.
A few nouns also exhibit vestigial noun classes, such as stewardess, where the suffix -ess added to steward denotes a female person.
Kiriaki Katsogresaki: The Greek hot air stewardess of the Saudi Royal Family!
As Callahan's unlikely late-in-life girlfriend, a Swedish airline stewardess named Annu, Rooney Mara brings a benign energy without being a trite Cinderella.
Her father was a Hollywood lighting director while Ragland took a job as an air stewardess.