wardress
nounUK /ˈwɔːdɹɪs/ · US /ˈwɔɹdɹɪs/
Etymology From warder + -ess.
1
A female warder.
- The door opened and the wardress came in.1993, Pat Barker, The Eye in the Door (The Regeneration Trilogy), Penguin, published 2014, page 369:
- She is not beaming at all. Her mouth is set like the wardress of Belsen wishing to boil Joyous’s chubby cheeks into candle wax.2008, Denis Beckett, “Explaining prawns”, in Magenta, Scottsville, Pietermaritzburg: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press; Johannesburg: Saga Press, →ISBN, page 83: