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hostess

[hoh-stis] / ˈhoʊ stɪs /


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Later, at a post-match reception at the home of a wealthy local white family, the team lined up to meet the hostess.

From BBC • May 27, 2026

It’s been 101 years since Virginia Woolf first published “Mrs Dalloway,” a novel about persnickety party hostess Clarissa Dalloway colliding with her former lovers, one male and one female.

From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2026

The 72-year-old said he had been hugely surprised to have his directorial debut, which stars his daughter Ella Bleu as an air hostess, accepted at the world's most prestigious film festival.

From Barron's • May 15, 2026

“Nothing is easy in Dubai,” said the hostess, Katushabe, who uses her earnings to maintain children and parents back in Uganda.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026

Aunt Tuti moved around the hostess stand to greet him, and the man took her hand and kissed it.

From "The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora" by Pablo Cartaya




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