governess

Example Sentences

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Perfume bottles—empty many years—because well-bred families always gave the governess perfume for Christmas.

From Literature

Aunt Tess had sat in my family’s parlor in Baltimore, had told me that my French could be put to better use overseas than working as a fancy governess.

From Literature

When Elizabeth saw the manuscript, she wrote to a friend that “the governess has gone off her head.”

From The Wall Street Journal

My mother’s family came from Breslau, and she had grown up speaking German, so she insisted I do too, hiring a strict governess named Frau Schmidt to look after me.

From Literature

The new TV series, based on the novel of the same name by Janice Hadlow, centres on the Bennet family's middle sister, Mary, as she becomes a governess to the Gardiner family.

From BBC