landlady
sustantivoatestiguado en diálogos
- Reino Unido//ˈlæn(d)ˌleɪ.di//
A female landlord.
sustantivo
- 1
A female landlord.
In a large bedroom upstairs, the window of which was thickly curtained with a great woollen shawl lately discarded by the landlady, Mrs. Rolliver, were gathered on this evening nearly a dozen persons, all seeking vinous bliss; all old inhabitants of the nearer end of Marlott, and frequenters of this retreat.
Yet Clacton, like every other station at a big seaside resort, is bedevilled by the traditional insistence of boarding-house landladies that their clients must arrive on Saturday before lunch and leave on Saturday after breakfast.
Etimología
From land + lady.
Formas
- plural
- landladies