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
June asks the landlady, who answers, “Kid who lived here got drafted.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2026
Ms. McDonagh also writes about Elizabeth Anscombe, who was one of the 20th century’s major philosophers, and also a student, friend and landlady of Ludwig Wittgenstein.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 2026
“It’s nice, out of the way. There’s an old servant stairwell, so my landlady doesn’t have to wonder why I return home so late.”
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
"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
Even picture postcards, Igo relates in one of many humorous and eye-opening vignettes, came under fire for enabling, one magazine’s editors wrote, “servants and landladies to have the full benefit of our private matters.”
From Washington Post ● Jun. 8, 2018
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
Then from Newcastle the company ascended into Scotland, where genial landladies and cakes and enthusiastic audiences compensated for east winds.
From The Vanity Girl by Compton MacKenzie
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