purser

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Laffey Inman fought to become the first female purser at what was then known as Northwest Orient Airlines.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 16, 2024

The brothers made their professional debut as children, when their father put them on a boat to Detroit to visit an uncle and told the purser the boys would put on a free show.

From Washington Post • Mar. 30, 2023

Davies, originally from Cheshire, began his TV career as an announcer on Southern Television in 1960, having previously spent seven years as a purser for the cruise company Cunard Line.

From BBC • Feb. 19, 2023

The place is run efficiently and with zest by veterans of South African Airways, Theunis Botha, who was a purser, and Denise Potter, who was an air hostess.

From New York Times • Apr. 11, 2019

Sobrecargo means much the same thing as purser, and Austin was an Englishman, though the Estremedura was to all intents and purposes a Spanish steamer.

From For Jacinta by Bindloss, Harold