jailoress

English

Etymology

jailor +‎ -ess

Noun

jailoress (plural jailoresses)

  1. A female jailor.
    • 1845, Katherine Thomson, Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745, volume 2, page 274:
      Ву the “clink of a louis d'or,” the prisoner managed to subdue the fidelity of this fair jailoress; she supplied him with pens and paper, and he immediately began a correspondence with his absent friends at the French Court.
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