Portress

Word PORTRESS
Character 8
Hyphenation por tress
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Portress"

What do we mean by portress?

A woman doorkeeper or porter, especially in a convent. noun

See porteress. noun

A female porter. noun

A female porter (person in control of the entrance to a building) noun

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The word "portress" in example sentences

The portress was a heavy sleeper, and I knew where her keys hung, on a nail just within the door of her cell. ❋ Unknown (1906)

The portress was a heavy sleeper, and I knew where her keys hung, on ❋ Edith Wharton (1899)

The portress was a nice woman, whose good-will Count Abel gained on the very first day. ❋ Victor Cherbuliez (1864)

He heard the horsemen when they came, and the voice of the portress and other voices, Welsh and English both, and among them, surely, the voice of John Miller. ❋ Unknown (2010)

After a while the portress came through the choir looking for her and told her she was needed in the kitchen. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The portress had conducted them to the cell where their charge, Elis ap Cynan, would be found in the nearer bed, and John Miller had carried him out in his arms, warmly swathed, and bestowed him in the litter sent to bear him home. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The portress raised her eyes, and stood there with gaping mouth, and a shriek which she confined to her throat. ❋ Unknown (2008)

As he descended again at a run, the portress hailed him: — “Monsieur de Courfeyrac!” ❋ Unknown (2008)

When he came down again the portress interrogated him: ❋ Unknown (2008)

The whispers of many men and the protestations of the portress were audible in the corridor. ❋ Unknown (2008)

A very sonorous bell, placed beside the portress, and which was audible throughout the house, indicated by its varied peals, which formed a sort of acoustic telegraph, all the actions of material life which were to be performed, and summoned to the parlor, in case of need, such or such an inhabitant of the house. ❋ Unknown (2008)

“I am not pleased with you,” replied the portress. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The old portress who had served him was among the number. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The portress set to scraping away the grass from what she called her pavement, with an old knife, and, as she tore out the blades, she grumbled: ❋ Unknown (2008)

His portress, who prepared his scanty repasts, a few cabbages or potatoes with bacon, glanced at the brown earthenware plate and exclaimed: ❋ Unknown (2008)

There was a stout portress who could always be seen hurrying through the corridors with her bunch of keys, and whose name was Sister Agatha. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The portress had “done up” his room; only she had picked out of the ashes and placed neatly on the table the two iron ends of the cudgel and the forty-sou piece which had been blackened by the fire. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The first voice which had addressed you was that of the portress who always sat motionless and silent, on the other side of the wall, near the square opening, screened by the iron grating and the plate with its thousand holes, as by a double visor. ❋ Unknown (2008)

In this open-air society, it is the rag-picker who salutes and the portress who patronizes. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The portress had come upstairs and was gazing in at the half-open door. ❋ Unknown (2008)

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