How to Use proprietress in a Sentence

proprietress

noun

• As their day ends, the Frasers go to a brothel where the Madame Jeanne, the proprietress, is none too pleased to learn Jamie has a wife.
  — Roxane Gay, Glamour, 22 Oct. 2017
• Angelique is the close friend and co-proprietress of the first novel’s heroine, Delilah.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 3 Nov. 2019
• With that approval in hand, proprietress Lilly Vuong hopes to open by the summer.
  — Ian McNulty, NOLA.com, 14 Jan. 2021
• Amy Shearn is the mother of two small children and the proprietress of Household Words, a blog about babies, books, and Brooklyn.
  — Amy Shearn, Redbook, 1 Aug. 2013
• Amy Shearn is the mother of two small children, and is the proprietress of Household Words, a blog about babies, books, and Brooklyn.
  — Amy Shearn, Redbook, 2 Apr. 2013
• In accounts of the lynching, Till is widely said to have wolf-whistled at the proprietress, Carolyn Bryant, on his way out.
  — Emily Langer, Washington Post, 5 Sep. 2017
• Allan said Theatre’s turned out to be an Irish pub, with wonderful food and a lovely proprietress who was very kind to the awkward young American.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 15 Oct. 2019
• But despite her abiding youth, Sudia’s killer take on the famous Stephen Sondheim bakeshop proprietress truly was world-class.
  — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 21 Dec. 2017
• Naomi flees, runs for miles, and finds sanctuary of a kind in a Georgia brothel, where Cynthia, the proprietress and madam, delights in her good luck at having found a source of free labor.
  — Jennifer Senior, New York Times, 19 June 2016
• It was inspired by a simple vineyard lunch Ducksoup’s proprietress, Clare Lattin, had outside Beirut.
  — Kitty Greenwald, WSJ, 26 July 2017
• As proprietress of a boarding house that seems to cater to misfits and down-and-outers, this maternal figure stands tall, talks truth, and envelops her little band of losers in the warming embrace of honest affection and genuine respect.
  — Marilyn Stasio, Variety, 8 Oct. 2021
• One proprietress likens it to trying to recruit a lover and hairdresser in one, calling both for deep professional acumen and exquisite fingers.
  — The Economist, 14 Mar. 2020
• Mimiko Takayasu, 80 years old, is proprietress of a century-old tea house where geisha entertain wealthy Japanese with traditional music and dance.
  — Miho Inada, WSJ, 15 Aug. 2020
• There, the proprietress greeted us with prosecco, stewed meats and quintessentially Triestine strucolo, a strudel-like pastry.
  — Tara Isabella Burton, WSJ, 20 June 2019
• Waters noted that the winemaker’s proprietress, Lulu Peyraud, is 102 and a longtime family mentor.
  — Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2020
• Eschewing Michelin stars for a mission bar, proprietress Michelle Courtwright gave up the riches of advertising to instead tackle climate change, food waste, and carbon footprint issues in the restaurant industry.
  — Jason Tesauro, Esquire, 31 Jan. 2018
• Eschewing Michelin stars for a mission bar, proprietress Michelle Courtright gave up the riches of advertising to instead tackle climate change, food waste, and carbon footprint issues in the restaurant industry.
  — Jason Tesauro, Esquire, 31 Jan. 2018

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024