Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. Plural form of stewardess.
Examples
“Avi has assembled a fantastic collection of vintage glamor shots of stewardesses from the golden age of aviation.”
“On a flight of less than 90 minutes, beautifully clad "stewardesses" - a word they embraced - brought economy class passengers hot towels and a hot meal.”
The Huffington Post: Tamar Abrams: United Airlines: You Need to Try Harder
“The friend arranges to have a member of the BOAC flight crew (then named "stewardesses" - now named "flight attendants") bring a copy of the latest Beatles record to Washington.”
“Flight attendants were called stewardesses, they only came in one gender, and on any given trip, at least one of them looked like Ursula Andress.”
The Huffington Post: Billy Frolick: Steven Slater: The Defense
“Mary Wells Lawrence put her Wells, Rich, Greene agency on the map not by doing an ad, but by redesigning the uniforms that Braniff stewardesses wore and they were called stewardesses back then and painting the planes all sorts of psychedelic colors.”
an existing business model for digital agencies / what consumes me, bud caddell
“Way back about 1954 when flying on airplanes was still comfortable and the stewardesses were always pretty, always attentive, and made sure you had your pillow and piece of free gum to handle the pressure changes -- there were still barf bags at each seat -- I made my first visit to Mexico City.”
“I was aware that the flight attendants -- then called stewardesses -- were passing by and looking at me.”
“When they were referred to as stewardesses, they were gorgeous.”
“The Aeroflot plane from Paris smelled of boiled potatoes, as I recall, and the stewardesses were as hefty as packed suitcases.”
“Having come to this decision, I went below and called the stewardesses, who, since the wreck, had assumed charge of the domestic arrangements --”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘stewardesses’.
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Words I dislike
bodacious, falafels, moist, fjord, strengths, stewardesses, damp, dank, no homo, crappucino, cunt, phlegm and 1 more...
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Words That Can Be Typed Entirely With...
Words made of the following: qwertasdfgzxcvb. I've stood on the shoulders of giants... users mollusque and reesetee made similar lists before I even existed on Wordnik. :)
stewardesses, red tea, waves, axes, wrest, qat, waver, created, dressed, stress, crater, vexes and 50 more...
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Typewriter words
Long English words that can be typed on a keyboard under various restictions. The longest are:
QWERTY left hand only: aftercataracts, sweaterdresses, tesseradecades, and tetrastearates...abracadabras, aftercataracts, aftereffects, barebreasted, decerebrated, desegregated, detractresses, extravagated, extravasated, reaggregated, resegregated, reverberated and 111 more...
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States of being
seeress, honey bucket, donkeyman, poopyhead, halfwit, vixenish, galoot, hoity toity, shitkicker, miserabilist, wanker, clueless and 261 more...
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Words Typed with the Left Hand Only
devastate, stargazer, beverage, addressed, cataract, beggar, debased, vertebrate, aftertaste, exaggerate, stewardesses, aggregrate
Tweets
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manaskie This is the longest word that can be typed only using letters on the left side of the keyboard. Jun 8, 2009
mollusque There are at least half a dozen longer. See the tag qwerty left. Jun 2, 2008
oroboros According to Chris Cole in Wordplay, the longest word on a typewriter using the left hand. Jun 1, 2008