Landlady
['læn(d)leɪdɪ] or ['lændledi]
Definition
(n.) A woman having real estate which she leases to a tenant or tenants.
(n.) The mistress of an inn or lodging house.
Edited by Cary
Examples
- Deerhurst was smelling a bottle of hartshorn, which Sophia's landlady held fast to the end of his nose. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Yet her voice had the same defensive brightness as she spoke to Birkin's landlady at the door. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- There is an inn here, the Red Bull, the landlady of which was ill. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- He is particularly cute, and can tell you more than I can,' said the good landlady. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Who ever heard me address her in any way but that in which a lodger would address his landlady? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Mrs. Dollop looked round with the air of a landlady accustomed to dominate her company. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- This the landlady of the Break of Day chirpingly explained, calling between whiles, 'Hola, my husband! Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- And breaking from the shrieking landlady, and from Mr. Pickwick, the indignant husband seized a small supper-knife, and tore into the street. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Birkin was standing in the middle of the room, when she was shown in by the landlady. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Landlady came round for me at dinner-time. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- As soon as I was dressed, my good-natured landlady begged I would come down to breakfast, while it was hot. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- The landlady flung a pair of lady's shoes into the yard, and bustled away. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- There was another loud ring; and the bustling old landlady of the White Hart made her appearance in the opposite gallery. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- There is, of course, the other woman, the drink, the push, the blow, the bruise, the sympathetic sister or landlady. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Beg your pardon, Sir,' said Mrs. Craddock, the landlady, peeping in; 'but did you want anything more, sir? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Mrs. Gale, Mrs. Hogg, and Mrs. Whipp--their respective landladies--affirm that it is just for naught else but to give folk trouble. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
Typist: Willard