Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The character or business of a hostess.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The character, personality, or office of a hostess.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The state or
position of being ahostess .
Etymologies
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From hostess + -ship.
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Examples
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She richly embroidered the themes, now so remote, that had once occupied poor Althea's imagination -- house-parties at Merriston; hostess-ship on a large scale in London; Gerald's seat in Parliament taken as a matter-of-course.
Franklin Kane Anne Douglas Sedgwick 1904
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"That will do," she declared, tyrannizing over him with a fine affectation of austere hostess-ship.
The Price Francis Lynde 1893
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