landlady
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“We now live in a large duplex with our landlady and her daughter,” Maggie tells me.
From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2026
Also, this was no time to be a picky landlady.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026
The pub's landlady, who asked not to be named, called the plans "horrendous" and said there was nowhere else the bins could go.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
June asks the landlady, who answers, “Kid who lived here got drafted.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2026
“My landlady, Mrs. Murphy, would like to meet you,” she says.
From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline
"It's not just people in the music industry, this was also happening to barmaids, pub landladies and people's mums," she said.
From BBC ● Feb. 9, 2026
The demonstration was organised by two landladies in Gedling, Nottinghamshire, and was attended by people of all ages.
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2021
It’s oozing with the sort of ingredients that cause a sugar rush of emotional associations: Paris, Provence, charming book stores, eccentric landladies, lost loves, even cats.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 28, 2015
The landladies run their fingers along the tops of wardrobes, tutting, while the men argue about their Visit Britain accreditation, mouths full of tepid bacon.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 20, 2010
For are not landladies ancient institutions fostering the public weal, and in their field not a whit less deserving of homage than governors and soldiers?
From Turns about Town by Robert Cortes Holliday
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