hostess

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The hostess usually puts on a nice spread: dips, fresh bread, cuts of ham and beef, Christmas tree-shaped chips with hummus and salsa cruda, mince pies, chocolate squares, etc.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 24, 2025

Harriet Cullen’s delightful biography of her mother, “Lady Pamela Berry: Passion, Politics and Power,” tells of a great fixer, the last political hostess in London.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025

“I remember going to one party with a lot of CEOs and big, big, big business guys and, the hostess was serving a butternut squash soup,” Stewart recounted.

From Salon • Oct. 30, 2025

Hanks recalled a story from the making of “I Like Me” where he and some colleagues were dining at a restaurant where the hostess asked them what they were working on.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 8, 2025

Victor had lost all idea of courtesy, or else he thought his hostess was not in earnest, for he laughed and went on:

From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin