Hostess \Host"ess\, n. [OE. hostesse, ostesse. See {Host} a landlord.] 1. A female host; a woman who hospitably entertains guests at her house. --Shak.
2. A woman who entertains guests for compensation; a female innkeeper. --Shak.
He outlines in loving detail the lurid passing of Nelson Rockefeller (including the fact that for their supposed working session his "colleague" Megan Marshack was wearing a long black hostess gown).
Ms. Gabel said she twice made weekend visits to Capasso's Long Island estate in Westhampton at Miss Myerson's invitation, but on one visit her hostess fretted about whether to take her along to a party.
But if you are a hostess, you will hear from a sailor sooner.
Mrs. Shevardnadze started her first full day in Tokyo with a visit to the posh Tasaki Pearl Gallery in Tokyo's Akasaka, accompanied by her hostess, Chiyo Uno, wife of Foreign Minister Sousuke Uno.
One of those acquaintances appears to have provided Ms. Onoue with the backing she needed to quit working as a hostess and go into business on her own.
A hush has fallen over the lobby which used to buzz with businessmen ahead of their midday meetings. The rows of exclusive nightclubs and hostess bars in Ginza are also feeling the pinch.
Wharton abandoned the role of social hostess for fictive invention and Roosevelt attained mental and physical health by pursuing the strenuous life.
Papandreou's 35-year-old live-in girlfriend, former airline hostess Dimitra Liani, was also at the hospital.
The current issue, accordingly, has no truck with the diligent housewife, the capable matron, or the fastidious hostess.
Who was Paula Zahn's predecessor as hostess of CBS's morning show?
The ambassador's wife, Sondra, also achieved prominence as a Washington hostess and newspaper columnist.
This year's Oscar awards show was nominated for five Emmys, "The 17th Annual American Music Awards" for three, and Broadway's Tony awards show was tapped for two, one of them for the show's hostess, Angela Lansbury.
TV talk show hostess Oprah Winfrey says she will soon make a dream come true by becoming the first black to own a major television and film production studio.
The report in Josei Jishin claimed that Uno began his affair with the Ginza hostess, identified in the article only as Ms. Y, 50, several years after he was first elected to Parliament in 1960.
But it will be as offbeat." Actress Angela Lansbury, making a return engagement as hostess for tonight's "1988 Tony Awards," wants to get back to Broadway where she collected her share of the prizes in earlier years.
"Just leave it to Phyllis to steal her," snapped the hostess.
Mrs. Reagan was hostess, he wrote, but Mrs. Gorbachev "did not confine herself, as most other wives of heads of state and government did in such meetings, to cross-chat with Mrs. Reagan on palace housewifery and other harmless subjects.
Junior Leaguers pretty much doomed it to dowdiness after years and years of wearing floor-length tartan hostess skirts and velvet headbands at Christmas time. Golfers with a penchant for goofy prints made a plaid situation worse.
Mrs. Moriyama replaces Tokuo Yamashita, 69, who resigned after apologizing for a much-publicized extramarital affair with a bar hostess 43 years his junior.
"I was an intern hostess and this morning I didn't hear the alarm clock," Ms. Gillou said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press.
Their segments feature a host or hostess, often seated in a studio living room or kitchen, demonstrating the products for sale.
He was shy, extremely so." He recalls that during the 1948 campaign, a restaurant hostess, seeking to tell Sam there was a phone call for him, came up and said: "Mr.