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LANDLADY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A landlord who is a woman
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("landlady" is a kind of...):
landlord (a landowner who leases to others)
Context examples:
Now, he said as he turned hungrily on the simple fare that our landlady had provided, I must discuss it while I eat, for I have not much time.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The landlady is putting us up a huge basket of provisions; it seems enough for a company of soldiers.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
In the character of a registration-agent I had a most interesting gossip with his landlady.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
By Jove! my dear fellow, it is nearly nine, and the landlady babbled of green peas at seven-thirty.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“There are certainly some points of interest in this case, Watson,” he remarked when the landlady had left us.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“That is Wat the limner,” quoth the landlady, sitting down beside Alleyne, and pointing with the ladle to the sleeping man.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The landlady informed me that he had left the house shortly after eight o’clock in the morning.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Well, I was sitting doing a smoke that very evening after I had been promised the appointment, when up came my landlady with a card which had ‘Arthur Pinner, Financial Agent,’ printed upon it.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
There is an inn here, the Red Bull, the landlady of which was ill.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The landlady drew an envelope from her bag; from it she shook out two burnt matches and a cigarette-end upon the table.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
