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landlady

[land-ley-dee] / ˈlændˌleɪ di /


NOUN
lessor
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The landlady and her partner escorted Gothard - who lived three to four houses from the bar - away to "calm the situation down", jurors heard.

From BBC Apr. 28, 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

Among them is Miss Connulty, a respected landlady, whose tragic past prompts her to warn Ellie that “love was a madness.”

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 9, 2026

It was a second-story porch walled in to make a room-for-rent so the landlady could get an income from it and have a watchman too.

From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison

"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

The erudite in landladies have, of course, cognizance of a class which are in no degree widows.

From Turns about Town by Robert Cortes Holliday




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