governoress

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A woman employed to educate children in private households.

   “It took a firm governoress, boarding school and a finishing school to get rid of the rough edges — and, by her late teens, the young Princess [Alexandra] was emerging as a beautiful and serene woman.”

2. isim A female governor.

   “I was introduced by Mrs. Onward, the Governoress, to Mrs. Sapient, the Speakeress of the House.”

3. isim The wife of a governor.

   “Colonel Braddyll, soon after his marriage, was chosen governor of ⸺, in India, and Mrs. Braddyll, as governoress, or governor’s lady, was in the height of her glory.”