Tresse
[tres]
Examples
- Being delivered into the charge of the ma?tresse, I was led through a long narrow passage into a foreign kitchen, very clean but very strange. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- I know you well--St. Pierre, the Parisienne--cette ma?tresse-femme, my cousin Beck herself. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- A bluff little personage this ma?tresse was--Labassecourienne from top to toe: and how she did slaughter the speech of Albion! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
Typed by Gwendolyn