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- noun Plural form of
landlady .
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Examples
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Not infrequently the landladies are the chief violators of their own unwritten law against the pianists.
Madeleine: An Autobiography Madeleine 1919
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Not infrequently the landladies are the chief violators of their own unwritten law against the pianists.
Madeleine An Autobiography Anonymous 1919
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But with no guests to torment, the landladies turn and begin to devour each other.
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They were, his note said, his landladies as well as trusted friends, and they had his highest recommendation.
Clockwork Angel Cassandra Clare 2010
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As with the original Isherwood stories, the action indeed gets along with the help of idiotic remarks made by bigoted landladies, and the wheels are greased by flashy talk of easy money and easy sex.
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If I want to shower … I shower downstairs in my landladies shower.
Turn Me On 2010
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Nora is the bisexual diva that lives in the landladies second bedroom.
Turn Me On 2010
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As with the original Isherwood stories, the action indeed gets along with the help of idiotic remarks made by bigoted landladies, and the wheels are greased by flashy talk of easy money and easy sex.
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He had to make sure the landladies understood that locking up for the night, indeed locking the guests out, at nine in the evening would not be acceptable.
A Small Death in the Great Glen A. D. Scott 2010
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Gino was shocked to find that some landladies were reluctant to take children.
A Small Death in the Great Glen A. D. Scott 2010
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