How to Use proprietress in a Sentence
proprietress
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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
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Angelique is the close friend and co-proprietress of the first novel’s heroine, Delilah.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 3 Nov. 2019
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With that approval in hand, proprietress Lilly Vuong hopes to open by the summer.
—Ian McNulty, NOLA.com, 14 Jan. 2021
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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It was inspired by a simple vineyard lunch Ducksoup’s proprietress, Clare Lattin, had outside Beirut.
—Kitty Greenwald, WSJ, 26 July 2017
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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
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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
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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
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There, the proprietress greeted us with prosecco, stewed meats and quintessentially Triestine strucolo, a strudel-like pastry.
—Tara Isabella Burton, WSJ, 20 June 2019
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Waters noted that the winemaker’s proprietress, Lulu Peyraud, is 102 and a longtime family mentor.
—Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2020
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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
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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
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